For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

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

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.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

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.