I guess in a way I try to avoid being labeled as a traditional DJ.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

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.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

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.