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.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

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

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

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 was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.