Mark Ronson

So if I was playing a cool club, I had a bunch of friends with me.

Everybody wants to get in, get some drink tickets.

If I was playing a not-so-cool club, like playing one of my uptown pay-the-bills gigs at a bar on the Upper East Side.

Nobody was coming with me.

And those were the nights when, you know, I mean, I kind of write about it, like sometimes leaving my apartment would be like that riddle of the teacher in school, the fox, the farmer and the bag of grain and the fox and the chicken and the farmer has to take them across the thing.

So I had three crates and

put one in my front door to keep the door open, call the elevator, put one in the elevator to keep the elevator door open, go back for the third one that was in the apartment, put that in the elevator, pick up the one that was in my apartment door, bring that over on the way and kick the one that's holding the elevator door open.

All the way downstairs, I'm already breaking a sweat and then repeat the whole thing in reverse.

And that was like in the apartment.

That was only one building where I ever had an elevator.

The rest of it were like four or five-story walk-ups.

So you were really like...

Yeah, you had broken a sweat before you were even in the cab on the way to the club, but I was 22, you know, my back could take it.

It's a little bit different now.

Yeah, it's not very grateful to that 22-year-old DJ.

I have like, you know, listen, it's not like...

Maybe being a chef or another intense line of thing where you're just like covered in cuts, bruises and calluses.

But I still have, I only found out two years ago that I have this crazy arthritis in my right foot from 25 years.

The doctor, when I went in, he was like,

Oh, I watched a YouTube video of you.