Mark Ronson is ready to tell his story in the new YouTube Originals documentary , How to Be: Mark Ronson.

The Grammy- and Oscar-winning producer behind such hits as Lady Gagas Shallow and Uptown Funk with Bruno Mars, gives fans an intimate look at his rise in the music industry in the new film. He opens up about his life and career, and throughout the doc created in association with BBC Music there are new interviews with Ronsons collaborators, family and friends, including Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Boy George, Sean Lennon and Rashida Jones.

It being put together by the BBC, I knew that it wasnt going to be crazy and salacious, and I was like, OK if Im honest and they do their shit how they usually do, I have faith that this will be something, Ronson told HuffPost.

Ahead of the docs release, we caught up with Ronson about everything from the current state of music to the story behind Shallow.

Youve had quite the year. How would you sum up this last year or so?

Its sprawled across a couple of different things and emotionally theres a lot of different things at play I mean, if I thought about the time when we put out Nothing Breaks Like a Heart ... and we played on SNL. Wed done it once before, but anytime playing on SNL is like that, that its even more so than the Super Bowl. Like thats the cultural touchstone thing just the most significant from my life and like boyhood shit growing up in New York. And so that was the kind of insane way to kick it off and play with Miley [Cyrus].

The real Shallow ride and putting out the record, its been great ... Ive been on other rides like this in the past that when you dont have your own personal shit together it can just become a bit more of a blur or it can just get overwhelming. And I feel like this time, maybe just because of where Im at and just being a little bit more centered and maybe a bunch of therapy, whatever it is, I do feel like Im more present for it, which is nice.