Today (June 9), Billboard published its third annual Dance Power Players list of electronic music’s top industry figures, and to no one’s surprise, Sonny Moore—aka the DJ, producer, OWSLA boss, and Justin Bieber career revivalist known as Skrillex—made the cut. (His Jack Ü collaborator, Diplo, is on the issue’s cover.)

During an in-depth interview (when he’s not talking up his upcoming collaboration with “Uptown Funk” singer Bruno Mars), Moore lets loose on a range of topics scaling from industry-wide to the more personal. He said that he sees the music industry as standing in the way of dance music’s evolution, both creatively and economically. “You have major companies like Live Nation, SFX and Goldenvoice that are constantly at each other’s throats,” he said. “I just want to play a show for the kids, like f–k all that shit. That can be a barrier, the politics.”

As for his greatest weaknesses, Moore said his are “girls” and “bad vibes,” the latter being explained as hangers-on who are “losering around.” That said, he’s learned to curate his OWSLA crew for maximum good, familial vibes, and he specifically points out his goal of empowering women: “I feel like girls are naturally even more passionate in the industry than guys at some point, because they want to be equal and they’re really trying to prove something. And I mean that in an awesome way.”

For the aspiring Skrillexes of the world, Moore’s advice to them is simple: “Be a f–ing kid, break rules, don’t care. Don’t try to get people’s attention. Let your art speak loud and people will find you.” He went on to say: “I never want to make music that everyone understands, and my favorite music is stuff that took me a second to understand…” Considering he altered the face of dubstep for a stateside audience, turned Top 40 radio on its head with Jack Ü’s Bieber collab “Where R Ü Now,” and at the Grammys showed the world that dance music can be played live on the guitar, it’s advice that he teaches simply by doing.