I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.
I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.
I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
Attention. That's all girls want.
My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.
You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.
New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.
Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.
If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.
