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“There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.”

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

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Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

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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 want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could…

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear…

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Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

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.

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.

“There's a destination,a little up the road. From the habitations and the towns we know. A place we saw the lights turn low. The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow”

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