"The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm..." — Beck

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.

What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

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

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.