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

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

I didn't want to do something typical.

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.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.