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My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

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!

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

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

I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.