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" I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested! "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Calvin Harris

Know

Waiting

" There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Calvin Harris

Remember

Good

" 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. "

" Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut. "

" I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times. "

Calvin Harris

Last

Up And Down

" Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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Money

Good

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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