Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.