I think as a producer, you’re always sort of questioning if what you’re contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I was fascinated by the word ‘Rudy,’ which is connected to the Jamaican term ‘rude boy,’ which migrated from Jamaica to London. I was also fascinated by that name, because it exists in Persian culture and Iranian culture. There is actually a place called Rudy in Iran, and there’s Iranians that I know with the name Rudy. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
You want the personality of each performer – whether it’s singing or bass or drums or piano – to be intact. In some ways it’s much more challenging to preserve that and to also make music that sounds modern. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I think that’s the only way I know how to write songs, is to think about my life, and also to think about the words at the same time. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I’m always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That’s one of the ways that we’ve always worked together. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I was listening ‘Plastic Ono Band,’ the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
