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The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.
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If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.
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If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.
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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.
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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
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I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
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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.
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When I worked with M.I.A., who was, like, the coolest person back then, she was just a girl I met on the Internet. Or even when I met Azealia Banks on Myspace, I never thought, 'Oh, she's cool.' I just loved what she was doing. So I've always been like that. And I think, as a producer, that's what you've gotta do.
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Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.
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I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.
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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.
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Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
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People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we've ever had before.
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It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.
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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.
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All of the best songs happen on a whim.
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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
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Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.
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Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.
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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.
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You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.
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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.