When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

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.

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.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.