There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.

It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.

There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason.

We live in the world when we love it.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

There is no self-portrait of me.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.