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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'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

I just loved EDM because I felt like it inspired dance and movement.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.