Nile Rodgers talks Daft Punk, rap and Chic in Reddit AMA

Suddenly resurgent dance music icon Nile Rodgers decided to open himself up to fans of his decades-spanning career via an amazing Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. The Chic guitarist and disco producer opened up the floor for questions after dropping a few nuggets about his music career like the fact that "Le Freak" is the most successful single in Atlantic Records history (or that, all told, through playing, performing, writing and producing, Rodgers has sold 223 million records worldwide).

A musician with a career as long and fruitful as Rodgers is bound to have some interesting takes and the Daft Punk collaborator didn't disappoint. Check out some highlights below:

What in your opinion has been the most drastic or impactful change to the music business since you started?
File sharing, and the fact that the industry DIDN'T embrace it! It should have been handled differently, because none of us mind paying for stuff we love.

As a music student myself, do you feel your most successful productions are written in shorter sittings e.g. couple of hours or those that have had more time spent on them?

YES! When I toil it may be good but it's never a hit!!!!!!

When you and Bernard formed CHIC, you used models on the cover of your first album and said that you wanted the music to be more famous than the people who made it. Bearing this in mind, how do you feel about getting recognised more and more these days following the Daft Punk collaboration?

It's really weird to be in the spotlight so much, but Daft Punk, like CHIC, are semi-anonymous and they asked me to do most of the press. Of course I love the guys and wanted the record to be heard, so I took one for the team.

Have you ever had anyone disrespect your skill as appose to praise it? And if so, how did you deal with it?

This is funny. Almost every single time I've played a new song for a record exec they tell me how much it and I suck. After the records become monsters, they can't ever remember screaming at me or telling me that.

Tell us more about the recently discovered Chic Organization master tapes. Will there be a box set Vol. 2?

It's a really long story and the music is still very close to my heart. I do know that Daft Punk will work on one of the songs, but I'm not sure I want it all to come out at once. I think you understand. It's the one chance I get to play with my bandmates who have passed on. Sometime it's fun to just jam with it and not have it be judged as a commercial project.

What is your all-time favourite Daft Punk track? What was it like to collaborate with them?
There's too many great DP songs to make one superlative, but I'm awed by "One More Time" because I love watching people on the dance floor when the tempo goes away. It was great to work with them!

If you could work with any artist dead or alive who would you most like to work with? 

Miles Davis!

Rodgers, who recently beat cancer, is working on a Giorgio Moroder collaboration that will surely take over the entire universe.

(Questions and answers compiled via Reddit and Rolling Stone)