February 22nd, 2010 by Adam Davies

Adam Young, the man behind Owl City and the chart-topper Fireflies, has recently revealed that it is his lack of sleep that gets his creative juices flowing. Young was clinically diagnosed with insomnia and copes with the condition by power-napping throughout the day, but it was his struggle to sleep that made him try to write a song – which became Fireflies.

Young didn’t realise then that what he had written would become so liked by so many, but perhaps now the insomnia is a little less of a burden and he may even appreciate the part it has played in his breakthrough.

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