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When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

I was raised around music.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.