I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.

I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.

Nowadays, all the people who are major are just DJs. The lighting and all that makes the show - without all of that stuff, it's just a person behind a laptop. With me, though, it's an actual show.

People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

I’m so broken inside that nothing or anyone can fix me

I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.