I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.

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.

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That's a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren't getting played on that station the rest of the week.

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

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