You\u2019ve been performing since the late 80s. What keeps you going? <\/strong>AmongstTheWaves You tend to alternate between styles from album to album. What do you feel is closer to your intrinsic self, funky Beck or <\/strong>lonesome Beck<\/a>? <\/strong>Mazzini
<\/em>It\u2019s a good question. I don\u2019t really know any other life. I\u2019ve spent a lot of my time trying to create a body of work, and out of that, maybe there\u2019s a few songs at the end that are not bad. So I just keep going down into the mine, trying to come back with a couple of things worth keeping. It\u2019s a lot of digging. If I had to stop and get a job painting houses or something, I would still make songs just for myself, because that\u2019s how it started.<\/p>\n
<\/em>Probably lonesome. But the other side of things gets me out of my shell, stops me from being a little too ponderous, which I\u2019m apt to do. The other side of what I do \u2013 Loser or Odelay \u2013 was more of a fluke. At the time that was what people liked. Now it\u2019s kind of reversed \u2013 they prefer the more introspective, quiet songs, and stuff that\u2019s a little more genreless. I don\u2019t have any songs that they play at weddings, like Uptown Funk. I remember telling Mark Ronson, \u201cHey, you made a wedding song.\u201d He was like, \u201cYeah, finally.\u201d That\u2019s a very elite category of song.<\/p>\n
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