Quotes from Danger Mouse

When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.