Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

I feel like you're being coy if you don't do something and celebrate the 20th or 25th anniversary in some way. Just as I've never, ever had any kind of embargo on playing songs from Endtroducing, no matter how much I wanted people to like my new stuff - I've never, ever stopped playing Endtroducing, for that reason as well. It's a give and take - it's a balance. If there's one theme, I guess, to this entire discussion, then it's that.

So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting around plotting an album. I just kinda follow my muse and wherever my interests lie, and at some point I decide, "Right. It's been a while, time to figure out how to get serious and make some music."

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.

Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.

I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.