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It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.