There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.
For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.
I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.
When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.
I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.
I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
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