Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.