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

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

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.

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.

The idea of a random stranger walking up to me one day and saying, 'Hey, baby, you smell like forever. Let's do it, ' isn't all that appealing honestly.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

Life is made up of compromises.

Become a legend? But I am already.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

I can't say no. But I did say, "OK. But have another song just in case."