I think the more you know people and the more you get to know artists, the better you can collaborate.
So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for rituals or for a funeral or for challenges, thousands of years ago, and these rhythms are still used.
It's not lost on me that I'm a Swedish guy from one of the coldest countries in the world.
I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments that don't really exist anymore.
I would love to do more superhero work; as a young film composer, that is one of the things you dream of.
I moved to L.A. in 2007 from Sweden.
Chance The Rapper is a person who really knows what he wants.
I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.
So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things.
The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we've been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way - like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be.
I think, as a composer, pressure should be something that makes you better.
Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.
Something I grew up with is John Williams, of course, with 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars.'
I've produced all of Childish Gambino's music.
It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind of melody or chords over it, it stops feeling African.
Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.
I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them.
I love learning new things.
I just want to say, creating music with Childish Gambino has been one of the greatest joys of my life.
As a kid growing up in Sweden loving American music, I always dreamt of migrating here and working with brilliant artists like Donald Glover.
