I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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