Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so mu….

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….

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone..

You can't please everybody, man..

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 st….

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era..

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years..

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

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know a….

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude..

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've ch….

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

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record..

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 ge….

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate..

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conduciv….

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 think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible..

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for..

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 ….