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In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

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.

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.

Artists can do whatever they want!

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.