Diplo quotes:

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

Someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty.

Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.

It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.

When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

I see the value in every kind of music, even country.

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.

All of the best songs happen on a whim.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be...

I've probably got the most eclectic social media there is because it literally goes from hanging out with my son at a park, to, like, Madonna's house, to a rave in Africa.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.

Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

It's never too late to change your luck

As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.

It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.

Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

The monsters in my head are scared of love...

America's definitely a trendsetter, and it's where a lot of information goes out to the rest of the world.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

It sucks for me, because now I have to not be as crazy as I am on the Internet. Which totally sucks, because it's not going to be fun anymore. But the repercussions are really bad. Like, Taylor Swift fans are really crazy. They threatened to murder me and stuff. It's really bizarre, and disgusting. They're the worst people in the world.

That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

Attention. That's all girls want.