I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.

In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.

The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.

I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, Okay, yeah, I'll try singing.

I think we're at a moment in history where all the rules are out the window it's not about Here's a single, and then let it build for a couple of months and then put out an album. Doing a common project Supa Dups we're having fun thinking about how we can improvise and make it fun for people to be fans of the music.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.