I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.
My first album was completed in three months.
The first time I got into the studio, when I was 17, 18, I got to work with people who were some part of the Cheiron thing, who did all the early Britney Spears stuff, all the early 'NSync stuff.
I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.
That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.
When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'.
The TV show 'How It's Made' brings the intricate details of assembly lines to numerous North American living rooms. But if the series were to ever branch into exposing the secrets of music production, Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges' would make for a mind-bending episode.
When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.
The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.
As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.
Making records should be fun.
There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.
I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.
I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.
I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.
I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.
I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.
I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.
I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
