Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
Mark MothersbaughThe stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
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 MothersbaughTechnology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.
Mark MothersbaughWith MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.
Mark Mothersbaugh