I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.