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As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

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.

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.

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.

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 like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

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

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.