94 Quotes by Diplo

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.