The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.
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.
What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.
One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
As a producer, you're there from the inception of the concept to the delivery of it. It just takes so much energy.
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.