I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.

- Erik Hassle

L.A. has been really inspiring towards me for the last one and a half years. There is a lot going on here now. I've been here before, when I was youn…

- Erik Hassle

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way th…

- Erik Hassle

I think touring in America lives up to the myth, in all ways of what touring is. So many pretty cities, and it's pretty easy, compared to touring oth…

- Erik Hassle

When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music. It's the closest for me to the old funk of James Bro…

- Erik Hassle

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only American gospel or soul music, it's …

- Erik Hassle

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.

- Erik Hassle

America and Europe are getting closer to each other. In the U.S. you've always had hip - hop, the blues, soul, and rock. For the last decade, there h…

- Erik Hassle