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I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

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.

There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.