Has the transition from producer / DJ, to singer / songwriter been smooth?
Well I’ve always been doing the song writing and never just producing. I wrote with Ellie (Goulding), and other people, so it was just a case of thinking: ‘Right, I’m not writing for these other people now; I’ve got to do this for myself.’ You just have to adapt what you’re writing about. With me, musically, I try to take a few more risks. With other artists they have certain things that they want to achieve with their music and the label has certain things that they want them to do. With me, because it’s my own record, I can do what I want; which is nice. I can just go in any direction and say ‘look, I thought id try this,’ and do it. So, would you say it’s easier creating songs for yourself than it is for other artists? I’d say so, yeah. At the moment I’m feeling like that because I’ve got complete freedom to do what I want. I haven’t got any guidelines, because there’s no one saying: ‘oh you should try something like this,’ or ‘we want it to sound like this song.’ The video for ‘Giv
