Deadmau5 Quotes

Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'

One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.

I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.

My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.

All my friends are usually at festivals... I just have so much adrenaline running, I literally could run a marathon after my shows.

We saw Bring Me The Horizon, they're really amazing and we had so much of a fun time.

Parklife is one of the festivals I most look forward to. The crowds are wild; I love seeing that energy, those sweaty moshpits.

I love that there's always something happening at festivals. It takes some of the pressure away, too, because you're one person on the bill.

Some of my friends really rock out: Matt and Kim, Diplo, when RuPaul was performing. Beyonce... there's tons of people I saw perform and was like, 'I just want my crowd to be awesome like this!'

The crowd at Download Festival always welcomes us with a lot of energy so I can't wait to perform there again!

I'd never been to a festival till I played one.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

My favorite part of any award show is meeting all the fans, and the KCA's are the one event I look forward to all year.

The first time I went crowd surfing was heaven.

It's hard to pinpoint highlights on tour because they're the gigs really. The whole day becomes about the show. From the time you wake up you are slowly building up to that.

Playing a room, it's a real dictator-type situation - you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there's a sea of people, and it's harder to lock in on any one group.

When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn't really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.