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.

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.

My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.

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

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