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I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born.
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.
I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.
I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.
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.
That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.
Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.
I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night.
If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.
When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.
When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.
I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.
I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.
Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.
I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.
A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.
There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight.
I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.
That didn't really matter, how you judge how successful you are is basically when you turn up to do a gig and people come and have a good time.
I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.
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.
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.
I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.
I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'
I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.
My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.
I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.
I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.
It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.
All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
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.
There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.
How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.
The most important thing is how you program and how you choose your records. That really does sort out who is a good DJ and who is just playing records.
It still feels unreal sometimes. It all happened so fast, like an explosion you know. But I am really hyped about the success of 'Animals' and 'Wizard'.
I'm just having fun. I go in the studio, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, what I'm going to make. I'm going to make whatever I feel like making.