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.

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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

- Mark Mothersbaugh

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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…

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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 …

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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…

- 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 quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That…

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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

- Mark Mothersbaugh

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…

- Mark Mothersbaugh