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 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.

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

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.

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.