Mark Mothersbaugh

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Choose your mutations carefully...

— Mark Mothersbaugh

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

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,…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world.…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher,…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so -…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she…

— Mark Mothersbaugh