Quotes from Deadmau5

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I do this sort of thing where, even for my own shows, I like to supply my own fingerprint of creativity. Not just ideas, technical things: offering model data, creating visuals for my stage show myself, babysitting renders, learning that technology as I go. That's what makes me feel like an artist.

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

The industry has always had a problem with the 18-to-25 market, but EDM is perfect - a unique identifier for a group in that mental and fiscal state; in their youth, but free to do whatever they want. We filled that void.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

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

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

I'm just a little artsy-fartsy computer dude.

God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I'm like the Dos Equis guy. I don't normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big.

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 consider myself an all-rounder, and I'm not trying to be King of the Scene or anything. I'd like to do everything, from writing film scores to producing pop albums.

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

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

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.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

There are some guys out there who make great music who may or may not be super-emotionally attached to their work. To each their own.

I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.

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.'

Usually, companies, when they approach other people to do VR, they're like, 'We're gonna offer a virtual reality experience' - to me, that usually means they're gonna put a bunch of 360° cameras in a room, film something, and wrap the video in a sphere so you can head-track and look around. To me, that's not virtual reality. That's 360° video.

I do get freaked out sometimes. I have kids hop my fence, get into my back yard, and just start screaming at me.

I'd be pretty saddened to hear anyone say, 'Yeah, listen to this... God, I'm awesome, the way this all sits together,' about their own work.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'

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.