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

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.

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

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 no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.