I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

The traditional DJ world isn't a world that I come from.

I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

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

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.