The Chainsmokers

“There's so much fucking tool, so many tools out there right now, so many, you know, so much software, so many ideas, so many genres, so much stuff happening every day that, like, you almost have to, like, constrain yourself a little bit to, like, have success.”

“Jungle actually is one of the only songs recently that we did not write. I don't think I wrote anything on that, on the top line of that song. Which is like, that's maybe like, full five percent of Chainsmokers songs.”

“We don't care about our music either.”

“I mean, there is not a credit card statement that I have not gone through line by line still to this day, you know, week by week. There's not, you know, a production budget that I haven't seen for a single show”

“Now, like, on Spotify, when we, like, started, there was, like, 10,000 songs uploaded every Friday. Now there's like a 190,000 or something like that.”

“You'd think that we'd have a formula now on how to, like, write a dance song at least, or write a pop song. Forget about trying to write, like, the truest song for you at that moment, but, like, it's still, it can come from anywhere, and it's so difficult, and…”

“Like, I was like, a 150,000 dollars in debt.”

“And I think within the first year of our career, you know, we went from zero to 30 number ones on Hype Machine.”