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.

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

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.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

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

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.

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.