“The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, an...” — Armin van Buuren Quote

“The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.”

“It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.”

“I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.”

“My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house.”

“Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.”

“Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.”