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.

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 something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff.

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.

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

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.

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 come by all the time and say, "Why are you called Tiny Telephone?"