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Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think, are arguably as important as the lead vocals.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

It's extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can... I think it's important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.