Your music is full of thumping bass. I feel for your poor neighbors.

I don’t really have a home yet. I live on airplanes, so there’ve been times where I’ve been making beats with headphones, and there’d be an old lady next to me in economy, and she’d tap me on the shoulder.

Didn’t you buy a place in L.A. somewhere?

I haven’t even set foot in it. I’m at my two-year anniversary of living out of a backpack.

That sounds terrible. Do you actually enjoy living out of a backpack?

Do I enjoy it? People live in bunkers in Iraq for years, you know? You can put yourself through whatever to attain what you want to attain. We’ve accomplished great things, and that’s kind of what it took.

People love to dismiss electronica as inferior to music that’s produced by real instruments.

The Ramones played four chords and took their Marshall cabinets and jacked everything up to 10 with bass, treble, mid, gain, volume. That was their sound, and people called them illiterate musicians. Leonard Cohen writes lyrics, but musically it’s not, like, the most challenging in the world. That’s the real art, not how technical something can be. It’s where it comes from and the effect it has on you.