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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Some people say I do it too much, but I'm always asking the artist questions. Sometimes - especially with new artists - you can see they're compromising in their mind. You see that look when they're listening to a vocal take and there's hesitation. And I'll be like, 'Are you sure you don't want to do this again?'

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

The best artists know what to leave out.

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.