I’m a musician. I’m not, like, a personality. I’ve never really pretended to perform that kind of function. Beck Read Quote
There’s some quality you get when you’re not totally comfortable. When you’re not doing what you’re used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it. Beck Read Quote
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. Beck Read Quote
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There’s only so much you can do with one record. Beck Read Quote
To me, ‘rock star’ conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know. Beck Read Quote
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I’ve done so many albums where I’ve been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It’s a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I’m trying to do myself. Beck Read Quote
Sometimes I’ll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else. Beck Read Quote
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone’s going to want to listen to that, but it should exist. Beck Read Quote
I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it’s usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank. Beck Read Quote
