You've worked on six songs on the A Star Is Born soundtrack. Do you have a favorite out of those?

Yes, I do. First of all, it wasn't just me that did any of those. That was a pretty collaborative effort. Amongst a lot of people. Me, and Nick [Monson], and Mark [Nilan Jr.], and Gaga worked together on everything. So I can't take credit for all of it.

I like "Look What I Found." It's my favorite. It's probably my favorite out of all of them. I don't think it's a better song than any of them, but I have this very sentimental thing in my brain when we wrote it. I actually recorded it when we were writing it. I listened back to it recently and it made me happy. It's a cool song. And it was in Ally's notebook in the trailer, which is way cool. It's like, "We wrote that." It's pretty cool to be a prop in a movie. When you write songs, you never think they are gonna be a prop in a movie. I'm pretty lucky to have a song—well, a bunch of songs, that are props in a movie. You write stuff, and all of a sudden it's part of a dialogue, and you're like, "What the fuck am I doing in life?" This is rad. I should be, like, digging ditches. Or cleaning up poop somewhere. [laughing]

All of a sudden, Bradley Cooper's talking shit about the shit I wrote! Which is fine. Because he's wildly handsome. Nice solid bones. [laughing]

You produced "The Cure" in 2017.

I did.

Was it a leftover from the A Star Is Born sessions?

No. The way that played out was we were writing stuff without intent for some things. There's like a period where you go through, it's like a… for lack of a better description… like an exploratory phase? Where you are just trying everything, and seeing what sticks to the wall. So that song, like, things were running concurrently. We didn't have an exact agenda at the beginning. If we were working on songs for the movie, or... Because stuff wasn't exactly all written out either. Do you know what I mean?

Yes. In the conceptual phase.

Because the movie develops like a snowball, going down a hill, right? You got the idea, all these things, and you know the first iterations of the movie, and here's the characters, and the songs you'll be writing—but that doesn't always stick exactly as it progresses. So, we were writing songs for things we knew about, writing songs for fun, writing songs about certain concepts, and then that kind of melody came out of whatever—and then it just sat as an idea. Specifically for nothing. Then we started honing in on the work for A Star Is Born. Things started becoming more realistic and more definitive—more defined for the film. There were not leftovers, there was just stuff we were working on for no specific reason. So it was never like, "Oh, let's put this in the movie, oh, we don't need it for the movie, let's put it out." It was more, "Boy, this is a really good fucking song!" She was going to do Coachella, and I was doing the stuff for, what do you call it… Interludes with BeazyTymes, aka my favorite producer on the whole planet! He is literally the best producer I've ever seen in my time.