I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.
I want to party in space because I make alien music.
I'm not limited.
I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.
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.
Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
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.
I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.
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.
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
