When I was 18, I was playing to 18 to 21-year-olds, and then, when I was 25, still playing to 18 to 25-year-olds. As I've gone on, the crowd has gone in both directions, both younger and a little older now than it's ever been. It is an interesting thing to hit 30.

I listen to music constantly, and I'm always hearing things I love that I'm excited to use.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.

People see me on stage and sometimes they think, "Who's this hotdog thinking that he's the best." They miss the point that what I'm doing now comes from a whole different world of doing it for no one with nobody caring.

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

I didn't change much in terms of my setup or how I was making my music. It's evolved to this point where I think people look at it as one big traveling party.