I’ve always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.
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I’ve always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
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I have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.
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It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.
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When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.
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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
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There’s always haters, no matter what you’re doing – whether they’re complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it’s too different.
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I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
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All this time I was finding myself and I didn’t know I was lost.
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To me, I’m always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that’s the most important thing in making music for me.
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I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
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When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven’t even seen that part of it that much.
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Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
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I can’t tell where the journey will end But I know where to start.
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I have always been mainstream. It’s so weird, because I don’t see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
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