Quotes by Mike Patton

You don't want to eat haute cuisine all the time; it's not healthy.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

If I admire someone's music, I'll walk up to 'em and tell 'em.

I'm surprised that anyone cares about what I do.

The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.

I saw G.G. Allin live once.

Everywhere you look, there's someone doing your thinking for you and telling you what to think and when to think of it.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.