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Kids Can Make Fun Of You For Having The Wrong Shoelaces: That's Just Kids. But I Don't Think I Had Any Trouble Making Friends.

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.

And Then, Also, When You're Doing Something That Doesn't Sound Like Anything Else On The Radio At The Time, You Almost Need To, Like, Ironclad It To Make Sure It Gets Through, You Know?

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.

I Think That Where It Came From And The Initial Birth Of It - It Did Come Out Of A Jam At Bruno's Studio, You Know? He Was Playing Drums. And Jeff Bhasker, Who Co-produced The Record With Us, Is On Synths, And I Was Playing Bass.