Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
Even in ancient times, people would unite to a beat. Now we have the internet and events worldwide, our frequency can be shared. Everyone can express themselves to the planet.
The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.
Every time I come with an album I try to do something different and obviously my life has an influence on how I feel and the type of message I want to give with the music.
I always knew I wanted to make music and share music. I followed my dreams and my passion. Et voila! And now it means not just me, but our community, have a voice. There was no internet, twitter, facebook, or instagram back then; now people with shared passions can unite their voice to share their values and thoughts, be heard, and make a difference. It's amazing - everyone can have a voice - and, as ONE, it can be incredible.
I want to support the United Nations who can share our voice and make us heard. What they do makes the world a better place; if each of us can just give a word to their cause, it will only get better.
There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.
Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
Kids listen to everything on the Internet.
I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!'
If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.
What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
