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

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

And then, also, when you're doing something that doesn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to, like, ironclad it to make sure it gets through, you know?

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

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.