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

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

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

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

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.