Calvin Harris

“Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.”

“Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.”

“When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.”

“Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.”

“I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.”

“I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.”

“I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.”

“I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.”

“The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.”

“I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.”

“Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.”

“From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.”

“I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.”

“I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.”

“Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.”

“There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.”

“In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.”

“I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.”

“To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.”

“The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.”