I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don’t like me; that’s OK.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn’t have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

The things I’m making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I’m drawn to them.

If you want to make something that’s aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren’t going to like it.

It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.

People would lambaste me or attack me, and I’d be like, “I’m being honest! I’m the one person that’s being honest and sincere about what I’m doing.” The rest of the world doesn’t want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.