Quotes from David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

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.

I wanna be a nice guy.

Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.

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.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

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.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

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.

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.

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 had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

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.

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.

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

Be Love; there is nothing greater.