I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.

The music is everything to me.

I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.

Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight.

A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn't think I could do it but he said, "You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you."

It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace.

I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.