You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

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.