El-P Quotes

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

I've always been a huge fan of Beck.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it.

I started to get turned on to a bunch of different bands when I was in middle school/high school. I was turned onto The Who and Black Sabbath and Yes, and stuff like that. But Rush I obsessed over. I wanted to have every album. I wanted to know storylines, read all the lyrics, learn the songs and everything.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.

I enjoy exploring music so much.

I remember, when I heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace,' on first listen I just thought it was such a great song.

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.

'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

Especially when I finish one of my songs I play it to my friends who are just normal people and not people in the music business.

I've always wanted to make some kind of music that was universally appreciated.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn't really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.

I am always listening to new music and reading about music.

I was talking to my dad about the stuff he grew up listening to, and 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a record that he had always talked about around the house. He always talked about it as the 'greatest concept album of all time.' One day, I started listening to it, and it just hit me. I was like, 'These songs are all hits. They're all huge songs.'

I can't honestly say with a straight face that every Avenged Sevenfold album is my favorite.

I love exploring music.

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.