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#1. I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

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#2. I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

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#3. My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

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#4. People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.

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#5. I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.

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#6. I always like the people who keep moving forward, but kind of stay in their own lane.

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#7. I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.

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#8. I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

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#9. A lot of times when I say I didn't do anything I was actually in Miami doing a show.

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#10. I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

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#11. I'm just making fun music so you can let your guard down and enjoy it, don't worry about what's cool and what's not.

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#12. I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs.

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#13. I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

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#14. When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

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#15. Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

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#16. The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

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#17. I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect.

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#18. The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.

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#19. In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.

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#20. The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

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#21. I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it.

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#22. CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music. I feel that it's not stealing sales from anyone; it's turning people on to the music.

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#23. I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

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#24. I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

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#25. I think we're approaching an era where there's a consistent dialogue going on between artists and consumers. And I think that's going to be part of the solution to actually selling music.

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#26. Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

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#27. KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.

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#28. The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being able to manipulate that is a really easy way to connect with people.

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#29. A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.

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#30. I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

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#31. I like to give stuff away for free and play shows for cheap and not rely on music as a job.

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#32. I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.

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#33. I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

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#34. I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

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#35. I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with.

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#36. That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.

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