Kristian Nairn Quotes

DJs are the new rock stars.

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

DJing is how I got into So So Def.

We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.

Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.

I had a record called 'Touchdown.' It was really bubbling in my city, and I used to go to different clubs and perform.

I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.

DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.