Calvin Harris has opened up about his unusual carnivorous diet, which includes chowing down on bone marrow and liver.
The Scottish DJ says he is feeling re-energised after ditching a ‘fruitarian raw vegan thing’ in favour of something a lot more meaty.
The 38-year-old told Zane Lowe on his Apple Music Radio show: "You know, I lost the ‘f**k you’ juice for a couple years. I did lose it.
"I don't know how I got it back, I think it was when I started eating bone marrow again and liver.
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"And it just all came rushing back as soon as I ate those bones and got those amazing fats in my body."
He added: "And then I felt energised enough through my primal diet."
Fair enough.
He also said he has been encouraging those he collaborated with on his latest album to adopt a similar diet.
Harris continued: "With this I'm putting artists in different places and moving it around. So much liver got consumed to get to this point.
"I was on more of a fruitarian raw vegan thing. I came out of that and went full carnivore, like the Texan, 'why eat vegetables when you can have testicles' kind of f**king thing, y'know, and this is the product of that.
"I got Charlie Puth taking crushed-up ants from China to get him hype and he sounded like Michael McDonald [Doobie Brothers singer] on this record. This is what's going on.
"I harnessed the power of the ants and he sounded exactly like Michael McDonald in 1982.
"My new attitude is: 'Let's have a laugh'."
Harris has recently teamed up with London-based star Dua Lipa alongside Young Thug for a new track titled 'Potion'.
The pair have previously worked together on 2018 hit 'One Kiss', and Harris has poured praise on the singer.
"When I want to work with someone it's because I think they have a unique voice or something that sort of speaks to me and I think, 'Oh, I could do something with this or something really good could come out of it' and she's one of those people,” he explained.
"It's a mixture between that and just someone that I get on with, that I know I'm going to have a nice time in the studio with ... I want to have a good time, I don't want to have any stressful, awkward experiences with people and I want to work with people that give me joy and pleasure in the hope that I can give that back to them as well and we can just have a great time, you know?"
Claire Reid