The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Topics: Beck Quotes

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the...

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the...

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments. It's really hard for me...

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments. It's really hard for me...

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's...

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's...

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How...

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How...

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

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

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

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

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's...

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's...

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

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

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and...

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and...

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did...

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did...

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going...

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going...

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping...

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping...

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

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

I didn't want to do something typical.

I didn't want to do something typical.