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.

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.

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.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.