The point has always been to make music, it's not like I've always been running a giant money making scheme.

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.

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

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.

I feel like there's always something to prove.