DX: Where do you look for a superstar today?
TR: You can’t find a superstar. A superstar just shows up, displays their talent. You know you can make a superstar, if that person has the star quality and is capable enough to learn how to be a star.

DX: Who was the last superstar you came across?
TR: For me, it would be Beyonce and right now I am trying to build superstars and I don’t think that we have that yet. They just have it in everything they do, their skills can’t be touched and you have to be a people’s person at the same time. You need to be able to get away from the crowds too. You have to have the willingness to learn and also not be ashamed to show what you know or what you don’t know.

DX: You say working with Michael Jackson was a great experience, there has to have been instances with artists where the studio experience wasn’t too great; how do you handle that?
TR: Of course there are times like that (laughs) and that was the worst. I do what producers do though; we are great communicators and it is almost like finding out what a baby likes and doesn’t like and there are times when you have to feed them anyway and well that is what I have been doing with most of these singers.