Mark Ronson

I just remember thinking it was so cool that he valued my opinion.

I was so obsessed with music, and he had a home studio.

And the idea of being in his home studio, watching him craft these demos and trying to learn how to work these tape machines and stuff was so cool.

His home studio was my favorite room in the house.

So the fact that he would wake me up at 2 in the morning and be like, play me these mixes from the latest Foreigner songs and ask my opinion, I just...

I mean, I've so valued my time spent alone with him because he was out of the house and on tour a lot and I was so close to him, but also feeling like my opinion meant anything really meant the world to me.

I don't remember specific songs, but I think it was the first time that he brought a mix home and played it for me.

And then he played me a mix of the same song a week later.

And I said, I kind of like the other one.

I was nine years old, squeaky English accent.

I kind of like the other one because the bass was a bit louder.

And he was just like, what?

And then he checked with the engineer, was the bass louder?

And I think after that, he realized I had these sort of like

bizarre recall for these things.

I think he started to value my opinion.

But no, it is crazy to think that I was listening to as he was like, I want to know what love is in these songs that would become classics.

I can't tell you how much of my opinion actually went into the final product, but it was so important to me.

I know.

And no, that's insane.