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..

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock st….

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

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 to classify. Those were my choices. That….

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism..

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

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 lik….

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 t….

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

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't f….

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with..

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 arou….

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 scor….

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

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

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..

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out..

Choose your mutations carefully....

My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and….

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 to fill them….

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 ….