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

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.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

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.

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

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