Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

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

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

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.