When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.