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.

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.

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.

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

Over-engineering can create products too complex to use.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.