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To me, the stage is like the free zone. That's what makes it exhilarating. For whatever reason, there's this weird little square where it's kind of a romper room for adults.
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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.
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The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.
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In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.
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Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their ideas in one pot and move on. Me, I need to compartmentalize.
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I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.
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Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.
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A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.
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When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.
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I don't read or write music in the traditional sense, so I have to figure it out on the fly while I'm in the studio.
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The only way I can make sense of my music is to compartmentalize it as opposed to having one band that I have to throw everything into. For me, it's just more fun and more challenging to create little worlds where a song or a piece can make sense.
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I remember playing with John Zorn and Ikue Mori in Taiwan in a school classroom. There were, like, 15 people there, maybe, and they were sitting at the classroom desks, and we played under the chalkboard. There's no difference between playing that and the 'download' festival.
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There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.
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Everything with Peeping Tom is kind of a guessing game. It's constantly exhilarating but also exhausting.
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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.
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I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.
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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.
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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.
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I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.
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'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.
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I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places.
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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.
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I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.
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I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture: the music, art, literature, film, food, and history. It's easy to fall in love with. As a country, Italy does a good job of holding onto its rich traditions and culture. There's a real lack of embracing history in America.
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Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.
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You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.
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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.
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I have to make an effort about things like going to the grocery store. That stuff reminds me that I don't live in the real world, and you know what? I'm thankful.
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There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.
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I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.
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