Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

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.

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.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

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