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Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.
I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently.
The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.
I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.
My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.
The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.
One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis.
I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.
A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.
I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs.
It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.
Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.
Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!
Feeling mad hostile, wearing Aéropostale, Flowing like Christ when I speaks the gospel.
I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample.
When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.
I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!
I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience.
When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.
If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.
I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.
Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.
I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.
Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
Success is different for every artist - I get psyched when i help realise their vision etc.
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
I'm really into mainstream rap and R&B, but I never saw myself as intertwined in that world.
I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day.
My mom and my shows is not a good mix. She came one time and I'm not letting her come again!
When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.
I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.