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

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

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.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

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

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.