Born on October 8th

"I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used."

"I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music."

"The first record I heard as a kid? My dad is a great soul and blues fan, so he showed me James Brown. That was my first stuff, and I loved it."

"To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening."

"If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?"

"I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart."

"Touring is not easy, as you always have a certain yearning for home no matter how beautiful the location you are in, but I have pushed myself to the limits and am certainly more aware of myself as a result."

"My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music."

"I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy."

"I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music."

"It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance."

"There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground."

"Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries."

"2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve."

"We, too, must change as circumstances evolve."

"In the field of mindfulness & peace, be present in this breath, for it is the only moment where life is actually happening."

"Peace is not the silence of the storm, but the calm center you maintain within yourself. As a creative innovator, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Let go of the weight of yesterday, and receive the clear canvas of this present day."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."

"Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through."

"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."

"I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on."

"Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder."

"I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars."

"I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me."

"The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing."

"There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world."

"It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live."

"The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid."