“I’m good at melody – I’ll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I’m not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.”

All this time I was finding myself and I didn’t know I was lost.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

I can’t tell where the journey will end But I know where to start.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

If I wanted to make a quick buck, there’s far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won’t be remembered the same way.

I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don’t always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I’m traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.

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.

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.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

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.

It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.

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.

I have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.

Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

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.

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

I’m only good at being bad.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

A good motto to live by: ‘Always try not to get killed.