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.

I feel like there's always something to prove.

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.

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 enough to get things to work in a musical way.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.