Quotes

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.

I even have shoes that don't fit. They're just so cool, I wanted to have them.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital to our existence.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.