Quotes from Mike Patton

When you do live abroad, you're basically searching for some kind of peace.

The Faith No More stuff isn't about me. It was a band. Maybe that's where a lot of journalists got the wrong idea. You don't just pluck a song off a tree and put vocals on it.

With Mr. Bungle, I'd lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I'd ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.

When you have to put on shades in the studio, you know you have to stop.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

I am perfectly aware of my position in commercial music.

I would like to do more film scoring, period. Whether it is a big film, a small film, or just anything. I feel like I have a lot to learn, and what better way to do it than on the job?

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!

Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.

When you're young and creative, you don't know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.

I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.

I'm surprised that anyone cares about what I do.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

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

I've had the new band experience plenty of times, and sometimes, it just sort of peters out.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.

A lot of concerts are just too safe.

Conducting is way over my head.

Things die for a reason, and in Bungle's case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I'd go crawling back to.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

You don't want to eat haute cuisine all the time; it's not healthy.