Afrojack

“I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'”

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

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

“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.'”

“When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.”

“I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.”

“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.”

“Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.”

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

“I have a good connection with people from America that come to my shows. It's more the American culture. I like the culture, so I want to spend more time there and make more friends and have some fun.”

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

“There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'”

“When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.”