Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.

There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning

With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law!

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.