"I never wanted to be a rock star. I was making my own albums and loved the idea of communicating passionately through music. The idea of that being in any way a parallel to a rock star was not really in my mind. But I've always loved the idea of painting pictures with sound, and my passion was definitely songwriting. So I've done 12 albums as an artist myself, and those albums of my own, half as songwriter and record maker, have always fueled all the other productions that I've done. Most artists that asked me to produce them, it was off the back of them liking my own albums, which are obviously nowhere near as famous as most of the people that I've produced, but nonetheless have a good sort of core audience, and it's often amongst the artists themselves."

 (Rupert Hine, cantante, musicista, produttore discografico; Wimbledon, 21 settembre 1947 – 4 giugno 2020)