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.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

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.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

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

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.