“Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you ...” — Beck Quote

“Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.”

“It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.”

“I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.”

“I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.”

“Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.”

“Millions of ordinary Americans may suffer from a toxic combination of ignorance and amnesia, but the victims of U.S. coups, invasions, and bombing campaigns across the globe tend not to. Ask the Iraqis or the Iranians, ask the Cubans or the Chileans. And, yes, ask the North Koreans.”