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.

To get 300 songs to fit together on an album, it's not like I choose 300 songs and say these are the ones I wanted to pick. To get those 300 songs I sampled 1000's of songs and narrowed down the ones I felt worked the best musically.

A lot of people aren't aware of the years and years of humiliation and horrible shows I've played.

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

My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It fit in more with someone using a laptop to create their own electronic music. When you're doing music like that, it's hard to get more than 20 people to come to your show.

It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.

I feel like there's always something to prove.