I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

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

I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.

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.

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