People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing.

In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.

I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.

It's a sad and beautiful world.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.