Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.