I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

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

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

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.

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?"

Through it all, the words of John Peel echo strongly within me: you have support the music that's being made now. You have to continue to look forward and learn from what's happening. That's my philosophy, anyway.