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

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

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 you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

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

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