The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

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.

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

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

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