"I’m not really an early adopter. I’m around a lot of people who are into all this stuff. We were all talking the other day about Jack White and this idea of what punk rock is in this digital age, and sometimes I talk to groups and they relate to Jack White or the Black Keys and how they record on these old analog machines. They say it’s very ‘punk rock.’ And I’m like, ‘Wait a minute. That is not punk rock.’
“Punk rock is—I hate to say it, but it is true—the way Kesha and Chris Martin did it when they recorded their track on the record The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends with me. They grabbed their computer, used the microphones that are in their laptop, sang into it and sent it to me. That to me—what kids do now—they don’t go buy some 40-year-old machine that costs thousands of dollars. That to me is the opposite of punk rock. It’s grab this thing, scream into it."