Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.