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

I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

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

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.

At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least six of my songs. Then the whole challenge is what do I weave around that. How do I stand out? Because at a festival there's probably fifteen songs every DJ's going to play every hour, for the whole day. That to me is more interesting, because I still feel like an outsider in this world.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.