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.

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 would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

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.

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.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

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