The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.
I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.
I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.
I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.
It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.
The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.
I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.
I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.