Hello, Mark. Why is 'Just' coming out again?

It was the first record I came up with - it gave me the idea to do the covers album, it was a catalyst. When it came out two years ago, it was a limited release but this is the last single from the album so I thought it would be nice to go out with the song that started it. I also got my heroes - some of my favourite producers and remixers - to work on it. You've got DJ Premiere, The Go! Team and RZA all doing mixes. I think it makes it something new. It's still my favourite song on the record, to be honest.

Can you sum up what it is that makes Radiohead important?

I can't think of anything I don't like about Radiohead, to tell you the truth. At least from 'The Bends' on. I think that they write brilliant songs. It's unbelievably brave and amazing how they change their sound from album to album. Live, they're incredible. They're all brilliant musicians and Thom York has an amazing voice. I like everything about them!

Now you have a Grammy, has Madonna been on the phone?

Not to be rude, but it's three Grammys! Anyway, I've just changed my number and I think she has the old one. I'm just kidding! It's obviously amazing to get a Grammy; it's the pinnacle of achievement. But the fact is I don't really want to work with anyone who just suddenly wants to work with me because I won a Grammy. I'm not dying to get together with some gazillion-selling artist. All the people I've worked with in the past year or two were young or up-and-coming talent who inspired me. Amy Winehouse or Adele... none of them were superstars when we worked together. I just saw something special in them.

Which would be the Mark Ronson philosophy: 'never repeat yourself' or 'don't f**k with the formula'?

I think it would be somewhere in the middle. Radiohead are an example of 'never repeat yourself' and I'm not genius enough to pull that off. I think evolving is more what I do, rather than reinventing. There are certain sounds I like, and classic arrangements that I always keep with me but, you know, 'Rehab' doesn't sound anything like 'Littlest Things' which doesn't sound anything like 'Stop Me'.

Is producing a democratic process or a dictatorship?

I think it's a really important balance between making the artist and the song the best they can be. So you can never go into a project with the ego first, but if there is an argument between you and the artist and you really feel confident that what you're doing is right then hopefully you can make them understand that argument. Everyone I've worked with, I'm lucky enough to be friends with and I can't really work with anyone if we don't have some kind of mutual respect.

We've had enough of trying to spot the next Winehouse, who's the next Ronson?

I don't know but when I find him I'm gonna lock him in the trunk of a car and chuck it off a bridge!

Thank you, the award-winning Mark Ronson.

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