Danger Mouse quotes:

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

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

After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.

I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

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

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

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.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

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.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

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

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 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.

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

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

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.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

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

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

I find that the kinds of music Im drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

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.