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.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

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.

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

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

The lifestyle is strenuous on the body, but it's stimulating to the senses and the mind. So there's a give and take. There are days the flights knock me out, where I feel like the human punching bag that is being on planes every other day. I think people sort of glorify it, like "Oh, you're at parties and there's booze and girls." But it's still work.