Deadmau5

I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.

With my previous record deal, it'd be like, 'OK, so I have this track then, EMI - do you know any singers, maybe? Do you have any singers on your little label there?' And funnily enough, they didn't. But I prefer finding unknown singers myself anyway.

Music is 80 percent fun and 20 percent work. Video games, for me, is all fun.

I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I'm a video game enthusiast. I love video games! They were a huge part of my upbringing in their early form, when I was all about 'Dig Dug' and 'River Raid.' As they evolved, so did my music-making, and we just kind of grew up together like cool friends.

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

I do get freaked out sometimes. I have kids hop my fence, get into my back yard, and just start screaming at me.

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

There are some great songs - like, I really like 'Snowcone' and 'Whelk Then' and 'No Problem.' I think I'm dissatisfied that it's not written from start to finish; it's over a year's worth of work that doesn't correlate.

I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.

I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin - I'm a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don't love my own original work.

I get anxiety from a noise or some scuffling at the side of the stage. I hear stories all the time, from as minor as Dillon Francis getting smacked in the head with a flying beer can to Dimebag Darrell.

I'd be pretty saddened to hear anyone say, 'Yeah, listen to this... God, I'm awesome, the way this all sits together,' about their own work.

I like to think of 'the studio' as a laboratory where I can go in, learn tricks, apply, revise, and release. I'd figure I had about the same emotional attachment to my craft as a guy over at NASA does over... NASA stuff.

There are some guys out there who make great music who may or may not be super-emotionally attached to their work. To each their own.

I get to listen and enjoy music that is partially mine. Maybe influenced and guided. I created some simple outlines, but ultimately, I'm hearing a derivative work.

It would be cool to custom-write music for some kind of story. That'd be cool.

'I Remember' was produced before the vocal. It's just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.

I didn't come up as a DJ, so I don't play by DJ rules.

I love watching professionals play more than I love sitting there 20 hours a day trying be a pro myself.