JONAS BLUE

I was a bit of a hot head when I was younger so I used to burn a lot of bridges.

I think some people have this thing where just because you do singles that means you're not a real artist. It's like hold on a minute - I'm selling millions of records here and been streamed billions of times... How can I not be taken as a real artist just because these songs are singles?

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.'

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

I've always wanted to collaborate with Shawn Mendes, he's an amazing artist, but the thing with Shawn is that I won't collaborate... me just sending some beats. It has to be in the studio where we'd both be there recording together.

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.

When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.

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

I've always wanted to be a star.

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.

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 come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.

I've tried to write songs that just make people feel happy and good.

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

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

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

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

Well after 'Fast Car' was so huge, everyone was asking me, 'What's the next song?' At the time I just had ideas I was working on, but it was very clear I needed to finish another song ASAP, and that's how 'Perfect Strangers' came about.

There's a lot of amazing women out there. There's a lot of hot models. But models are the worst, because they're models, you have to always step up and always look good.

Definitely India is one place I'd love to travel to and play.

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

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

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

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