Imagine for a moment you’re Skrillex. You spend countless hours in hotel rooms and transit lounges, eat a lot of dinners with promoters desperate to please, get chauffeured into clubs bursting at the seams with rowdy kids, drink a lot of Jack Daniel’s and Diet Coke, and generally have a fun time with it. After all, you’re not yet 25, so what’s not to be content about?

Interviews aren’t your favourite thing to do, but you do them diligently. You’re in London and the esteemed Guardian newspaper wants to profile you, so of course, why not? You give an interview in which you’re described as “relaxed”, “lucid” and “full of the joys of life”, which sounds about right. Then your manager sends you the article – they’ve given it prime position in the Culture section. The title: ‘Is Skrillex the most hated man in dubstep?’ We’ll forgive you for feeling kind of pissy about that.

Few dance music personalities incite the kind of firestorm of opinions that Skrillex does. Whether he’s working with motion-capture robots on a live show or teaming up with nu-metal relics Korn, it’s sure to be divisive. In the Guardian interview – which you can read in full here – he claims not to hear the haters.

“I never really even hear these views, mainly because I don’t have much time for the internet,” he tells the paper. “I go to shows and all I see is love. I didn’t even know people had an issue until someone said: ‘Oh, this and that forum seem to have a real problem with you.’”

And before you start accusing him of defiling dubstep, it turns out the term irks him. “I don’t even try to make ‘dubstep’,” he says, ‘lifting his hands to make air quotes’ at The Guardian writer. “It’s just another tempo and rhythm that I work in, because it makes people go wild.”

The interview also finds Skrillex discussing his legitimate reasons for being “emo” as a teenager, why he can’t sign up to a “cocaine lifestyle”, and the insatiable appetite around the US for what he does. It all signs off with the line, “Is it any wonder he’s happy?” That article title might dent his mood.