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.

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. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.