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I certainly like working in Germany.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.

The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Berlin is my favourite city.

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.