“As a kid growing up in Sweden loving American music, I always dreamt o...” — Ludwig Goransson Quote

As a kid growing up in Sweden loving American music, I always dreamt of migrating here and working with brilliant artists like Donald Glover.

I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially in music and composing.

Something I grew up with is John Williams, of course, with 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars.'

I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from Western classical music. African music is completely different.

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out - music from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. So much of that stuff was groundbreaking.

I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it's pure.

American music has become really heavily stylised and focused on production. With producers like the Neptunes and Timbaland, it's so much about the backing track rather than the song.