I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.

I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.

Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.