There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.