I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.

'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

DNCE is “dance without the a.” It’s not a perfect word, and you don’t always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

You should always remember that you were chosen to be on this earth.

I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.

One thing nobody knows about me is that three of my fingers are edible, but I cant tell you which fingers.

I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Many people asked me to convert. I said my religious convictions remain. I am fighting the wrongs within my own community. And if I decide to convert I will lose the right to fight.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.