You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I think that's what propelled our band, the fact that we put on something that was visibly attractive to people and then… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that at the end of the day, it's only you yourself that creativity comes from. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
It's hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
