Beck

I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s. ”

If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer. ”

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 about? ”

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by. ”

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose. ”

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by. ”

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. ”

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal. ”

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation. ”

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is. ”