Quotes from Mike Patton

Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.

I lived in Bologna. I go back quite often, and I still have lots of connections and lots of friends. It was a nice period in my life.

Acting is even stranger than I thought it would be.

With Faith No More, even though we're a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.

'A Perfect Place' is character-driven. The director for that wanted a couple of identifiable themes with a bunch of variations. That is what I did. The director for 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' did not want that at all.

My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.

If I admire someone's music, I'll walk up to 'em and tell 'em.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

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 with that.