I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

I would rather have 10 people working on a record that are really committed and believe in it and love it, than 50 people who have no idea who I am or what I'm for.

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

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