My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.