Danger Mouse Quotes

I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.

We Can't Stop' - everyone said that it wasn't going to work on pop radio, because it didn't have an EDM-type beat. But it went to No. 2 on Billboard and No. 1 on iTunes.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

When I recorded 'Sun,' I wanted to do something with more of a modern sound. I've never done anything like it, and it was fun for me to sing, but I'm not really a dance person per se. However, I would love to hear that song in the club. I think it's a really good dance song.

Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest, and they're playing my songs.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think people have still got an appetite for that type of music-melody and darkness.

I'm not exclusively into R&B. I like Usher.

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

My music is a little bit of everything - R&B, hip-hop, EDM.

So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

Doing the Best I Can' is a sure fire hit. Incredibly commercial. But what could you say about it? Catchy and good to dance to. But 'Nothing Rhymes' is different. A much bigger risk but it was lyrics people could talk about. So that was the one to launch me on.

I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.

Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

Some of my friends really rock out: Matt and Kim, Diplo, when RuPaul was performing. Beyonce... there's tons of people I saw perform and was like, 'I just want my crowd to be awesome like this!'

For a long time I wasn't actually listening to pop. But when I got back into electronic and hip-hop stuff, I rediscovered my passion for pop music.

We're huge fans of Kylie Minogue, Grimes, and artists who are doing more electronic music.

'Gargoyle' was inching towards a more accessible record.

I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.