Avicii: "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."

Avicii: "I'm a DJ. I get the party started."

Avicii: "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."

Avicii: "I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can."

Avicii: "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."

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

Avicii: "I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome."

Avicii: "I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all."

Avicii: "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."

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

Avicii: "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."

Avicii: "Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres."

Avicii: "There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.' When I'm off I just don't want to hear anything."

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

Avicii: "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."