I am no one to be a purist.

- Mike Patton

I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people t…

- Mike Patton

I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them togeth…

- Mike Patton

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

- Mike Patton

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the…

- Mike Patton

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

- Mike Patton

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

- Mike Patton

I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't kno…

- Mike Patton

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong wit…

- Mike Patton