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.'

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.

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

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.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Sometimes we need to take back and take a look at ourselves, a look at where we are

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

Your future is co-created out of what you do today. Do you act from fear or faith? You get to choose.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.