Rick Rubin

It's a higher vibration.

We're making the best we can make to the best of our ability out of love and devotion.

That's what it is.

And there is no, I'm changing it for someone else because it can't be better than this devotional act that we're doing.

There is no higher, no higher form.

Most of the artists I work with don't read any criticism or reviews of their work, good or bad, most.

Some do.

And I would say the ones who are the strongest in who they are can even read a terrible review and laugh at it.

And that makes sense because when someone gives you criticism, it's telling you as much about who they are as what you've made.

It's like we make things and then we make it with one...

through our filter, our perspective.

And then you receive it through your filter with your perspective.

So even if we both like it, we probably don't like it the same way for the same reasons.

We all have our own relationship to it.

Everyone has their own relationship to it.

So any of these metrics of which is better, like the idea of the Oscars or the Grammys where we're saying which album is better than another, it doesn't make any sense to me because it's always apples and oranges.

The only people who we can honestly compete with is ourselves.

It's like, is this the best I can make today?

Have I gone further than I've gone before?

That's all we can do.