Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share
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… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share
Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
