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. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.