John Atkinson sent me a link to Time's Rick Rubin interview. I can see why JA liked it—Rubin's production philosophy reminds me a lot of the way JA edits and records.
What they have in common is that they only work on projects they want to be involved in and, once they commit, they bring out the best in their collaborators by trusting them to work hard at being themselves.
I really dug Rubin saying that writing is a hard, painful slog, but that without it, you've got nothing.
