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I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a...

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five...

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz...

I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound...

I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

I didn't do sheet music. I learned to play the piano; I played songs by sheets but I never really liked to do that. I was never really skilled at reading music sheets. I just used to make a song every...

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.