As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.

Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.

There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.

Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.

Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio.

I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.

In fact, it's in my interest to love digital recording, and I just spent a ton on a new digital recording system, so I speak from a place of heavy investment in both sides.

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

Think of another as you want God to think of you.

I always respect a woman.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

Don't believe anyone who says, "I alone can fix it." Americans don't say, "I alone can fix it." We say, "We'll fix it together!"

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.