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.

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.

When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

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.

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

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