Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.