Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.

I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

When we will learn to use our love as a currency to buy the peace, peace will be there.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.