Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.