I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

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.

When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

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.

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

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

I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.