I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

There is magic in patience, you know.

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 influences, and putting it into electro.

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 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 better track than the last one.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.