Deadmau5

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

“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.”

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

“The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.”

“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.”

“I'd like to think I wouldn't get booed off stage if I chose not to wear the head - I did gigs prior to having the head made and never had any problems. I'm aware though that, as a gimmick, it can create its own little monster as a brand.”

“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.”

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

“Everybody's all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it's, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.”

“You have to have a certain amount of grit in your sound, and having real synths and talking certain elements outside your computer can help with this.”

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

“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.”

“Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.”

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

“EDM is, like... Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops... Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They're just kinda like, 'Now, now, now - do it, do it.'”

“I was just trickling releases out slowly and building the Deadmau5 brand slowly. There was never this big marketing machine behind it or anything like that.”

“I'm exploring this world of game development and GPU and getting involved in any capacity that I can to meet talented artists and programmers and developers. That's what you're gonna need to get a high-end experience done.”

“Creamfields is, without doubt, 1 of the highlights of year for me. I really can't wait to come back.”

“I don't think anyone's career is so big that they can't know where their major synchs are or where their publishing is going.”

“The label does what's good for the label. Always.”