It's not about talent. It's not about luck. It's not about contacts. It's about fucking doing it and doing it and doing it.
A guy was waiting for me outside the back of the nightclub after I'd been playing. He had one question. How do you make good tracks?
I said — that's a very broad question. But here's the answer. It's not about talent. It's not about good luck. It's not about having the right contacts. It's a numbers game. If you make a thousand tracks, what do you think — one of them might be good?
In 2017 I made my first ever successful track. It was called More Than Friends. It got in the UK charts and it literally changed my life. Before that, I had no money. I was borrowing rent money off my girlfriend just to survive. Then I made that track and put a Rolex on that shit.
But very quickly after, I discovered the fear. The fear that I'd never be able to do it again. And that fear was horrible. It ate me up for well over a year.
I don't have that fear anymore. Because I did do it again. And that confirmed my theory. It's not about talent. It's not about luck. It's not about contacts. It's about fucking doing it and doing it and doing it.
If you could see the amount of fucking songs on my hard drive, mate. I probably start 500 tracks a year. And how many of them have you heard? Like five. The longer I do this, the better I get. I actually make stuff that's good now. Whereas when I started, I used to think everything was good — and the reality was none of it was.
But I firmly believe that if I just keep doing this shit, I'm going to make another track just as big as Ferrari was. And I think you can too.
