Quotes from Flume

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

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.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

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.

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

I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.

I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.

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

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