“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 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’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.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”

It is about time we listen to our crazy young forgotten hearts.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.