I don't need to play Beatport Top 10 to get the crowd going

Music should either move your feet or move your heart

I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

Our efforts make the world go around.

With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.

The only certainty in life is that all things will certainly change.

Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.

We're all just wandering around with our fingers crossed, hoping we'll meet someone who will make our lostness a little less lonely.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.