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

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.

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.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Quite like old times,' the room says.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

I was unlucky, like my country.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.