What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.