Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins
I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.
I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"
I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.
I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
