Quotes from Jillionaire

I think the biggest part of being on a sound system is wanting to always be the best.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

Fabulous is familiarity.

I love coming to Australia. It's one of my favourite places.

Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.

In Brazil, you buy tickets to go to the stadium to watch the carnival, but in Trinidad, you buy a costume and take part. There are very few things that can rival that experience.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

India is special, and its beauty absolutely humbled us. When we toured there as Major Lazer, it was mind-blowing to see our fan-base.

If you're going to go to a festival, drink water for six days before you get there.

It's nice to see a friendly face or have someone know your name.

The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

I try to stay at the same spots all the time, so they remember me.

In terms of brands, I generally try to stick with EDITION Hotels or Soho House. That way, I know what I'm getting myself into. Plus, the lobbies and bath soaps smell the same - if you're into that kinda thing, which I am.

There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.

Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'