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A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.

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.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.