I Never Studied Jazz Technically; I Just

I Never Studied Jazz Technically; I Just Know And Love The Music.

My Grandmother Always Used To Wear This English Perfume Called Tuberose And Then She Died And Then I Dated This Girl Who Wore The Same Thing. Every Time I Hung Out With Her, I Could Only Think Of My Recently Deceased Grandmother. So Sometimes A Signature Scent Can Be Good And Sometimes It Can Be Bad.

I Think, You Know, For Me, Whatever I Need To Slot Into To Make That Music The Best It Can Be Or Help The Artists, Or Whoever I'm Working With, Achieve Whatever Vision They Have In Their Head For A Song.

Being A Die-hard Knicks Fan, I Remember Hunting Down These Orange-and-blue Nikes That They Only Released In England. And I Used To Hunt For Sneakers When I Dj'd In Japan. But Then Nike Flooded The Market With A Head-spinning Array Of Color Combinations And It Just Didn't Seem Cool Anymore.

Then, You Know, The Other More-traditional Role Of The Producer In, Like, The Kind Of Quincy Jones Sense Is Kind Of Part Arranger. So You're Coming Up With, Like, These - You Hear These Songs That Are Quite Bare-bones, And You Dream Up What's The Band Doing? What's The Rhythm Section Doing? What's The Guitars, Strings, Pianos - That Sort Of Thing. It's Almost Like A Little Toolbox.