Producer DJ-Diplo has had quite the interesting few years, as he's pretty much skyrocketed himself to stardom seemingly overnight.

Despite the artist's success, he's recently received a lot of negative attention resulting from his conflicting views on a lot of things in the music industry, as well as certain celebrities.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the artist clarifies a lot of aspects that many spectators may have skewed. He first addresses his perception on social media:

"If I have a fight with somebody, it makes me look like a prick, but it makes the social-media numbers explode. It's the Kanye West theory: In 2015, become a prick and just get more popular. I don't want to be thought of like that, but also I just don't really care. I'm doing jokes and people take it seriously, like that's the person I am."

He also addresses his internet beef with Taylor Swift:

"We squashed it! I saw her at the Grammys and she was supernice and cool. Her fans loved the beef, though. That's all they have - they don't have, like, real things going on. It's still startling when these artists pay attention to my Twitter. Like, Ed Sheeran unfollowed me when I said something about Taylor - I can't believe these people even know who I am."

Given his rise in the EDM world, he speaks on how it has influenced his career:

"It's been a slow evolution in America - you still have the biggest, glossiest, most masculine music at EDM raves. But it's got young people excited about music. Jack Ãœ is headlining festivals now, and Skrillex and I are up there playing random records, doing what I love, being unpredictable, being trendsetting. Some of the big guys are changing too - David Guetta's new album, nothing's really dance on that. And there's stuff like Disclosure and [French house producer] Tchami that's not about being the biggest and brightest. Skrillex - there's no precedent for what he's doing and what he could do. His persona can be as big as a rock star."