“When I got in the studio with her, she sang the song so well, I didn’t say even anything as a producer,” he said. “And she hit the button like, ‘Are you going to tell me what to do?’ And I’m like, ‘You’re Aretha Franklin. I don’t know what to tell you to do.’ She said, ‘Well, listen, you’re supposed to be the producer.’ And she has a way of telling you, you know…

‘You’re supposed to be doing… We spent money to have you here. You’re supposed to do what you got to do.’ And from that day I knew that that was my job. My job is to tell these artists or whoever I’m working with exactly what’s going on.”