Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

I travel all the time. I'm very restless you know.

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.

That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.