If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.