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

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

I hear something I like, and sometimes, I think it's gonna work, and I will cut it up, try it out, try to work with other material. Sometimes, it falls flat, and other times, it works out, so in that way, I'm constantly listening to music because I enjoy it.

People see me on stage and sometimes they think, "Who's this hotdog thinking that he's the best." They miss the point that what I'm doing now comes from a whole different world of doing it for no one with nobody caring.

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

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

When people come to my shows they know there is a distinct beginning and end. It's difficult for me to play for much more than an hour, so people kind of come out and treat it like a rock show. They're fiending and ready to dance.