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I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

I made a living being a background singer for years.