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A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

There are lots of good producers out there.