I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Find your passion, and it's no longer work.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.