This is an excellent interview of Rick Rubin by Lynn Hirschberg. Please note it's ten pages long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02rubin.t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=magazine&adxnnlx=1188879085-GUvnTS8lNw1nklYuUuxkVQ

There's a discussion about this happening over here:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=124980

Ah, missed that one.