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.

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.

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.

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 an eight ball of coke in my pocket and a wad of hundreds. Because that kind of freedom - well, perceived freedom - is where I want to be.

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.

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