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

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

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.

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.

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.