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.

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

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.

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.

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'm a DJ. I get the party started.

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