Quotes from Girl Talk

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

I've been dedicating my life to doing remixes and sample based music. Whether you're into it or not I'm going to continue to pump it out.

I'm most excited about going swimming and riding water slides, shooting off fireworks, and playing basketball, and things like that. That's what I really love doing. Summer is a great time.

I am always excited for gaps of time where I can actually hang out with my friends.

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.

The whole point of doing the pay what you want is to be reasonable with the fans.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.