138 Quotes by Mike Patton

My tools are musicians, effects, things like that.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

I'm not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore.

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.

A lot of concerts are just too safe.

Everything with Peeping Tom is kind of a guessing game. It's constantly exhilarating but also exhausting.

When you're young and creative, you don't know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.