But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.