Quotes from Flume

In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.

Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.