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"Lia called the shooting 'a fabrication of a massacre without bodies'. He said I was a Purveyor of fake news with the intent of tarnishing the nation's image, that I'm a terrorist."

"I witnessed protesters collaborating and helping each other protesters, giving food and water to the same police who's been killing us off every day. Others provided security, another group provided funds that were donated to them I mean in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for legal and medical attention to protesters who needed it. This is the real Nigeria."

"I couldn't go home to where I lived because we got reports of strange men lurking around my apartment complex."

"SARS stands for Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Trust me, it's truly a special bunch. A special breed of armed robbers in uniform. A special group and gang of rapists in the badge. A special crowd of murderers with a license to carry a gun."

"For years young Nigerians like myself with interesting hairstyles, ripped jeans, iPhones, nice cars have been harassed, extorted, illegally detained, tortured, raped, and killed by the Nigerian police. Specifically, a unit of the Nigerian police called SARS."

"Another member that was standing behind me came up to me and said someone is taking out the cameras from the toll gate. And I said: do you recognize who, because we had, I think, the real heart of Nigerians there. We did not destroy anything. Except for Graffiti. We did not take anything, we did not take anything from the toll gate we cleaned up after ourselves. So we wanted to be sure it wasn't happening, it wasn't a protester that was doing that. And then we found out that it was one of their staff, you know, we have the LCC uniform. Those are the people that manage the toll gate. We took a picture just to keep and to sort of use as proof that we didn't destroy or take anything. And then we realized that the big billboard that is over the toll gate had been turned off. And so just before 7, it was like to 7, maybe a quarter to 7 not sure of the exact time but 7. We had gunshots coming from behind. At first, it was chaotic as we didn't know where the gunshots were coming from. We didn't know what the gunshots were about. And then the lights went off. I think the rest of that is just the most tragic thing."

"We got information that the Governor wanted to see me and six other people. And I remember saying to them that we have no leader if the governor wanted to speak to us, he should kindly come to the tollgate and address Nigerians because we've been out for over 11 days."

"What started as a protest against police brutality, especially the unit called SARS, unfortunately just degenerated into something I still find it hard to reconcile within my heart."

"You and l are most likely to die before these our leaders. With all the money that they’ve stolen, these leaders have access to the best medical care, but what can you and l brag of?"

"The Nigerian Army called the shooting fake and I had made the whole thing up with a green screen. Yes, I have plans of going to Hollywood after this speech."

"The Nigerian Minister for Information, our very own spin doctor, his first name is ‘Lie’."

"Our leaders are afraid; it is as simple as that. They are afraid of a thinking, innovative, and collaborative working Nigeria. They are afraid of every young Nigerian who, against all odds, has made it for themselves."

"The same future that they say is in the hands of the leaders of tomorrow, but what we have tomorrow are recycled leaders of today who have failed to provide an enabling environment for young leaders to thrive and contribute. But they chose, instead to kill us all off one by one."

"I know that I want to make sure that I do everything I can to get justice for those people, and it’s beyond justice now. I’m looking at a full-on reform if it’s the last thing I do."

"If you listen to a song on the radio you can definitely tell whose music it is. When you listen to my music you can tell it is Basshunter."

"The album is very different from the all the other albums today. First of all, the album was one year delayed because I wasn’t happy and every time I did an album it was unofficially finished. I had some time to listen to some new songs and plug into some music programs and discovered this new song and delayed the release for a month, because I wanted to update the new tracks to these new sounds I found... so then when I did that all the other songs sounded like crap compared to the new ones! So I said f*** this I need to reproduce the other ones as well. Then I scrapped a few songs and produced new ones. So to produce this album I pretty much produced maybe about 50 tracks and picked out the best of them. You know when you buy an album from a producer/artist, you kind of hear the same sound repeating in each song, you hear the same sound repeating, but this album is like every song is individual. Like you wont find two songs which have the same sound. Each song is completely different which I think kind of represents what I do because I produce everything and I love producing everything. Sometimes I’m in the mood to produce you know a dance song, sometimes I’m in the mood to produce an R&B song, it’s just interesting because I just want to show people that I can deliver to all ears."

"We are putting in a lot of extra work into the tracks, and we are looking at least 16-17 tracks in the album. So instead of having these 12 track albums with two remixes it’s going to be like a total of maybe 19-20, so it’s going to be interesting to listen to."

"This new album, it’s basically, I’m trying to satisfy everyone with this new album. Because when you release a new album you can choose either to be mainstream or go old school, but for this album I’m pretty much both of it."

"I'm here touring with my latest record, Bass Generation. I produced and wrote all the songs, and I was really focused and wrote all the lyrics from the bottom of my heart. Each song is different, but if people listen they'll know it's a Basshunter song."

"There's a track called 'Why' that I really like. It's in the rock style again and I'm very satisfied with the lyrics. I wrote it after looking at a painting which had lots of things going on at the same time. Another song I really like is called 'I Still Love', because it's a little bit harder than the other ones."

"I don't want to change my music, but I like to play around with my style of music. I've always been a big fan of guitars. The beats are still quite hard and the riffs are still Basshunter, but I wanted to do something special. The lyrics are from a true story as well. It's based on me dating a girl who I thought was the one, but it didn't work out. I woke up one morning and she was doing something in the kitchen and then came through with a cup of coffee for me. I just went, 'Wow! I have to write a song now!'"

"I'm very proud of this whole thing - the new single and album. I was given more time to work on it, so I've been able to add little touches. There's been more time to think and listen. All the songs are very special and I'm very, very satisfied with it."

"The opportunity to perform my music for billions of people around the globe will be the greatest highlight of my life, I am honoured to be part of the biggest sports event in the world."

"No more hellfires and please no more gunfire"

"I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon."

"Girl I put you in a trance like Tiësto"

"Bump techno by DJ Tiësto"

"Now he took the music of like Mandrill, like "Fencewalk", certain disco records that had funky percussion breaks like The Incredible Bongo Band when they came out with "Apache" and he just kept that beat going. It might be that certain part of the record that everybody waits for ]]— they just let their inner self go and get wild. The next thing you know the singer comes back in and you'd be mad."

"Herc really slipped up. With the monstrous power he had he couldn't mix too well. He was playing little breaks but it would sound so sloppy. I noticed that the mixer he was using was a GLI 3800. It was a very popular mixer at that time. It's a scarcity today but it's still one of the best mixers GLI ever made. At the time he wasn't using no queueing. In other words, the hole was there for a headphone to go in but I remember he never had headphones over his ears. All of a sudden, Herc had headphones but I guess he was so used to dropping the needle down by eyesight and trying to mix it that from the audio part of it he couldn't get into it too well."