DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.