When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

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.

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

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

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

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.