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

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

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.

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.