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My profession is called record production.

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.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.

The record industry is a world within itself.

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

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.