Quotes by Afrojack

"I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song."

"Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country."

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

"Cars for me are like a piece of art."

"I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything."

"I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions."

"People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language."

"The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them."

"My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love."

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

"For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'"

"The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be."

"The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?"

"The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always."

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

"If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'"

"I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting."

"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."

"Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music."

"I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy."

"People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool."

"Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass."

"I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game."

"One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes."

"I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond."