54 Quotes by Mark Mothersbaugh

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.

TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.