I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's like chess or something. After a couple of years, you think you're good, then you see a real DJ that's been doing it for 20 years and they just blow you away. I think that's one of the things I like about DJing: you can get better and better and better.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

I've always found it interesting when I'm the person in the audience feeling mismatched by what I've seen or heard. The shows I've taken the most from I may have not liked while I was there listening to it but, maybe an hour later, there's suddenly a lightening bolt out of the blue: "Oh, I'd see them again."

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.