There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great. Ryan Lewis More Quotes by Ryan Lewis More Quotes From Ryan Lewis Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done. Ryan Lewis me done god people I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing. Ryan Lewis go success love people You have no idea what you're passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn't been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I'd be doing something different. Ryan Lewis camera doing you guitar I don't think I would be here in an interview if YouTube wasn't in existence, if social media hadn't been developed, or if these platforms for artists to promote and develop their own careers hadn't become available. Ryan Lewis own think social-media media When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can. Ryan Lewis you music sports long The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing. Ryan Lewis result doing everything process I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done. Ryan Lewis yourself you competition art I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me. Ryan Lewis better me genuine trying I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes. Ryan Lewis behind job music fall