“Cars for me are like a piece of art.”

“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.'”

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

“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.'”

“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 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.”

“If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.”

“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.'”

“If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.”

“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.”

“You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.”