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.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

Lord, I want to be up in my heart.

I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.

That’s why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that’s what it does to me. So as a musician, I’m just trying to do the same thing with music I make. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when someone comes to me and says the music I’ve made has affected them emotionally, that’s the most gratifying part of my job.