You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!'

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.