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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.