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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Imperfections & failure are as much a blessing as our talents & success. Together we must dare to be ourselves so that we may live beyond our wildest dreams

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.