But generally I think I'm a good judge of character - you have to be as a DJ to read the crowds and understand their vibes. You can use that to suss out a lot of people.

To be honest, I'm like a sponge so my inspiration and influences really can come from anywhere.

I don't drink or party. There's literally no time for that. As soon as I finish a show, I go straight back to the hotel room, do emails, I sleep, that's it.

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.

I don't get along with many people, especially in studios. I'm quite blunt and I know what I want - and songwriters are very sensitive people.

I'm a little bit of a show-off; I just wanted to get girls and be popular.

If I'm honest, I never knew 'Fast Car' was going to be my first single.

The one thing about Essex is that there's a lot of people there that are into their soul music. And I'm talking '80s and '70s soul music, that was a big part of my childhood, there was Al Green, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, people like that.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

The focus is on melody: If you get it right, and it connects to the mass audience, it doesn't matter if it's a studio album or played on the dance floor.

My version of 'Fast Car' is in the same key as the original. To me that is where all the emotion lies.

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

I come from a songwriter background, so essentially with my music, I'm trying to make songs that will last a lifetime and although 'Fast Car' was a cover, it reflects what I'm trying to do.

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

My music is very global.

I grew up with all different genres of music, and I want to include that in my production as well.

I love touring, it gives me the ability to see the world and meet some amazing people who are into my music.

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

I find in America, actually, I actually prefer it because it's all about energy. It's all about making everyone feel happy and smiling. In the U.K. sometimes people are a bit too concerned about, 'Did you play that track? Did you play that track?' It's not so much about the music in the U.K.

I'm really not one of those deejays who go, 'I play music that I like.' I play it for the crowd. I believe that's what a deejay should do.

That's the whole part about being a deejay: You've got to make sure you are prepared. At the end of the day, you do have your genre - house music, dance music - but there are many different ways of playing that.

I try and have two to four days a month to just be at home.

I'm very close to my family but this life moves so fast. Coming off stage, you're so tired so forget to make the call or send the text. By then five days have gone by and you haven't spoken to your family.

The way it always starts with me making my music is I will never, ever start with the production first. It's always me at the piano, fresh on the day. I never come with anything prepared.

I used to follow artistes like David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia a lot before making a full fledged career in EDM... their music inspired me too much.

I got on a bit of a rollercoaster looking into how Herbie Hancock used to make his tunes, and I remember a picture of Jean-Michel Jarre at one of his concerts and seeing the Memorymoog. When I heard the sound it I was like, 'Arrrgh, I really need that.'

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

I've never had that boring office job. All my jobs were music related.

My family wasn't involved in music, but I love music.

I knew music was for me from an early age.

I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming up with song concepts for those melodies. I kind of write in a very traditional way '- how people have written since the early '40s.

The concept and vision of 'Electronic Nature' is to give my fans a fully immersive sensory experience of music, visuals and more.

People like Sam Smith and Adele, they're album artists but for me, where I go around the world and sounds are changing so quickly, singles are the best way to get those influences out there and try new things out.

The role of a DJ is being able to keep people on the floor for X amount of hours so you can't just push buttons to do that, you have to have good tracks and a knowledge of where to take people.

People like Little Mix... they've got a big lot of choreography that they need to do so it's difficult to sing and dance at the same time. I think if they've got to do a big performance with loads of visuals behind, they need to possibly mime at some point.

I listen to a lot of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears - the songs just stick in your head and that's what I want to achieve with my music.

I stay up night after night looking at new software, seeing new trends, what music's happening you know you've just got stay constantly connected and that's just something that I do and I think is really important.

The adrenaline is like nothing else. You might be tired or whatever else, but when you get on that stage and see people reacting there's nothing like it. It's a bit god-like - that feeling that nothing can feel better.

I always strive to make my music unique.

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

I'm a massive Justin Bieber fan. You've got be able to admit that.

A turntable is the classic DJ's weapon for playing vinyl, but the mixer is the device that actually allows you to blend multiple tracks together to create a mix.

There's benefits of having established artists on the record, Liam Payne on 'Polaroid' for example. If you look at that song you have Lennon Stella, who's an up-and-coming artist, so there's a balance on there because I still want people to focus on the song just as much as Liam being an amazing superstar.

It is a pleasure for me when 'Rise,' which many people loved, was covered by a famous group like IZ'ONE.