Art Is The Child Of Nature; Yes,

Sometimes Things In Life Take A Few Years To Digest, And They Find Their Way Into The Work Later On. Sometimes I'm Writing About Things From Eight Years Ago-they Just Took A Long Time To Distill And Come Out In The Appropriate Way.

Sometimes, Reissues Can Be Revelatory, Or Put The Original Record In A Different Light, But Those Are Rare.

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.

There Are Plenty Of Minutemen. People Willing To Be Minutemen. Where Are The People That Want To Be George Washington? Where Are The Benjamin Franklins? Where Is Sam Adams? Where Is John Adams?

It Was Disturbing To Me That An Idea Or A Song Could Become Something So Different From What You Originally Intended. It's Like If A Friend Took A Stupid Picture Of You At A Party On Their Phone, And The Next Thing You Knew, It Was On Every Billboard.