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 some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

The limitations are limitless.

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

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

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.

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.