A lot of people from the Bay, especially musicians, feel like northern California is not the place where everything's poppin' off and not quite on the cutting edge artistically as New York or L.A. People from the Bay feel like… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make pop records for the middle-class, lower-middle-class - pop for the 99 percent. — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects. — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
If you are stuck at a dead-end job, or you know your friends are bringing you down, the time to act is now. You… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
My music has evolved to reflect that multigendered, multiracial, multigenre music. Whether I realized it before or not, I'm most influenced by that rock… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky I did… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
Pitbull is, like, one of the most incredible humans. He's an amazing guy, and when we first connected on 'Fireball,' he said, 'I love it!' He recorded the verse in a day, we mixed it the next day, and it was on the radio in like two weeks after we made the initial track. That's just how he works. He's… — Ricky Reed Copy Share
I can never think about, 'Is this going to sell? Is this going to work on radio?' I just have to get in the… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
Who doesn't love classic Destiny's Child or Ace of Base? There's so much amazing music from that time period, so it makes sense that… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
