“I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been...” — Erik Hassle Quote

I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.

Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were forever arranging these parties for artists. As a result, they didn't have to play that many records.

The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.

I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

Manic depressive is a disease.

I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.