Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.