The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up into tracks, to me it's like one hour-long piece of music. In assembling the whole thing, I'm really thinking, okay, it's gonna end here, it's gonna start here, and I kind of have the idea of the journey.

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.

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.