“When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven’t even seen that part of it that much.”

I can’t tell where the journey will end But I know where to start.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

If I wanted to make a quick buck, there’s far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won’t be remembered the same way.

I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don’t always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I’m traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.

I have always been mainstream. It’s so weird, because I don’t see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I’ve always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.

To me, I’m always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that’s the most important thing in making music for me.

I have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.

Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

There’s always haters, no matter what you’re doing – whether they’re complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it’s too different.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Where there’s music there can be no evil.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.