There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.

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

One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.

When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.

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