Craig David Quotes

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

I produce electronic kind of music, like EDM kind of stuff.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

I like to blur the line between remix and cover version and new song.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'

I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

The first turning point, when I stopped doing things by myself and the Bastille project began, was the inclusion of more electronic music into the sound.

I have found a groove and a combination between originals and mashups that I think works well.

The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.

I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

I got a lot of experience for my age. Some artists might take a line or two from a bunch of songs and snip it together and make something, but everything I say I do.

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.