While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.
Kygo
I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.
I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.
I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really do try and play as many festivals as possible!
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
I don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.
I don't really know too many designers. I like a lot of what Kanye West has done with Yeezy, but I think it's a bit too, how you say, elevated; it's a little bit too special. Like he's trying to make something that's kind of a little bit too cool sometimes.
I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.
I hate being put in a box labelled 'tropical house.'
I really like melodies.
When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.
Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.
Making music all the time was my dream.
I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.
When I'm on the road and it's super stressful, it definitely affects my music. When I'm hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend and things are good in my life, then it's better.
SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.
The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.
I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.
I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.
If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.
I'm so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.
I called it 'Cloud 9' because that's the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It's also where I am when I make music.
I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.
I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.
It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.
When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.
I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.
I've been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can't wait to share more originals in the future.
I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.
When I go into a store and find a T-shirt that's well-designed with a great fabric but the fit is all wrong, the T-shirt is ruined for me.
A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
'Coming Over' was probably the fastest collaboration I've ever done.
I guess the biggest thing I had to get used to was people staring. At first it was like, 'Am I wearing something odd? Is there something on my face?' It was kind of weird because when I go to the grocery store, people, they're not necessarily coming up to me asking for a photo, they just... look at me.
2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It's an honour to be their Breakout Artist of the year, and I'm super excited to see what we can do together in 2016!
I didn't think it was cool for me to walk around with a huge Kygo logo on myself.
The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.
I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my career.
I've been a sports fan forever.
Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.
Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.
I wouldn't be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.
I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.
Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen - it's very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I'd sit inside in front of the computer, make music, and dream about summer - instead of the rainy reality outside.
When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn't do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical ... I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably a good name for it.'
I've really enjoyed working together with Apple to help launch their new streaming service. It is really cool to see Apple getting involved.
I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.
What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.
