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

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

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.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.