One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.

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.

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

I don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.