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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.