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Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.