Avicii

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

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...

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

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.

I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

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...

A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I...

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

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.