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But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.
The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.
I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.
I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.
I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
I still write the same way and have the same perspective.
Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.
The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.
I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
I enjoy music that is commercial.
If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
The Internet is a whole new world opening up.
I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.
I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.
