I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.