To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age recor….

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..

I wish I could go out farther from my musical history. I didn't realize how hard it was until I tried to do it. All the basic tracks on Romanian Name….

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

One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be ….

Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwh….

I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is….

I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the so….

When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be like natural speech. It's probably like ….

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..

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

The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT connectors. Engineers used to co….

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 in….

Usually I'm trying to get away from my discography. I don't think I could tear down everything I've done, the structures I've created - you know, lik….

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

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

One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's be….

Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really interesting quest….

If you'd asked me what I'd wanted to do five years ago, I'd have told you I wanted to be Viktor Vaughn or The Game - I would want to be a rapper with….

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..