I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.
Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.
I have been a huge fan of Major Lazer for a long time and they have done a phenomenal job in redefining dance music across the globe.
Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
I have this romanticized idea of dance music in the '90s because, obviously, I was way too young to be a part of it. So I have this rose-tinted idea of it. I have this idea of it being a very special time. But I still don't know that much - I can never remember any names of seminal artists.
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
I actually really like DJ Assault - a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who's produced good music that's influenced me a bit.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
Dance music always goes through its changes; many styles come have their light and go back to the underground 'til it happens again.
Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
And I just have a dream one day of dancing in Ibiza to 'A Little Bit Alexis.' That's my long-term goal.
I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.
Nothing wrong about EDM. Great songs came out of it, but there was a period when everything had to have a pace of 128 bpm and be DJ-related.
A lot of new genres were being born at the time I started going out to clubs in South London, and I was part of an exciting movement that has now blown up around the world.
I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of my taste - a little bit brash for me - I think it's also introducing a lot of young people to dance music, and then they're discovering better dance music through it.
Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
