nick it yo

krillex and Katie Couric: a match made in interview heaven. The EDM phenom sat down with the journalist for a new installment of her Yahoo! series, "Conversations With Katie," with the pair creating a spur-of-the-moment dubstep track filled with trippy vocal loops. "It's a festival smash," Skrillex says. "It's for the children." So you were born in San Jose, California. What were you like as a kid growing up? I was loud as fuck but also quiet. I was loud with my friends but also quiet in public. I loved legos and shit and I like to cook. I like to organize shit. I was never active so my dad had to pay me $30 a week to do cross country. Was cool, some good money, bought some more legos. I was 14/15 some shit. As for the pervasive drug use in EDM culture? "I always did it for the music," he maintains. "I don't do molly. I'm not telling kids to do molly. My music, I feel, is not that good for those types of drugs because it's so much more intense. I wouldn't be able to do 300 shows a year if I was doing drugs. It would be impossible." Where do you get your energy from? Adderall and a lot of water (laughs). I don’t do drugs anymore and I rarely drink. Go to bed, wake up early, drink hella water and I’m energy. You want to open a store for it down the road? We’re going to do pop up stores hopefully different spots on my tour. Big Mouth tour, get your fucking tickets. Do some popup shops, have some guests but we want to open up a retail store in 2018 permanently. But I want to do it in a different area because everyones on Fairfax and Melrose. We want a block. We want to have everyone there chilling kind of like an office. Upstairs will be an office and sell some clothes, meet some peeps, it will be fun. Despite his father's devotion to Scientology, the musician says he doesn't have time for the religion. "My dad does it for himself, and it's something that's helped him forever," he says. "The main part is that you dedicate so much of your time to it. My time is dedicated to music, and I wouldn't be able to do what I do now if I spent my time doing that."