Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you’ll reach your goal.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.