When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.

God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.

The more we learn, the more questions arise.

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

There are incredible musicians around the world.

I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Losing something might be a blessing; gaining something might be a curse!

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.

On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

That equals to being a fool having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that but they are broke.