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" If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what. "

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" I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring. "

" I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird. "

" I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved. "

" The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals. "

" I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man. "

" The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love. "

" Singing's not my real passion. "

" I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me. "

" No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?' "

" I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy. "

" I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music. "

" To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying! "

" I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do. "

" I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why. "

" There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out. "

" My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well. "

" I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it. "

" I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.' "

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" I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads. "

" I don't like hype cluttering art. "