When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

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.

As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

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.

Attention. That's all girls want.

The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.

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.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

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.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

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.

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

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.

The traditional media never gave Bernie Sanders the time of day. But he went viral the same way hip-hop and new dances go viral. And I'm part of that culture.

We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.