To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
Mark MothersbaughMy major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
Mark MothersbaughI write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
Mark MothersbaughWith vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.
Mark MothersbaughMy 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 listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.
Mark Mothersbaugh