Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes
Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.
If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
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.
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.
I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.