I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.
Mark LinkousI've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
Mark LinkousI hate the sound of my own voice. It's just up there, sort of naked and exposed. Live is hard, because on my records, I play almost everything on a lot of stuff. In a live situation, I can't control everything. I use two different microphones. One is just clean, traditional sound, and the other one is basically a cheap cassette-recorder microphone that goes through a distortion box to emulate my voice on the record. That helps some.
Mark Linkous