Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
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.
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before. " That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.
Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. . . There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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