Frases de Mike Patton

“«El asesinato es como escribir una canción. Lo planeas y si todo va como lo planeaste, es un éxito. Nunca lo he hecho aunque tiene un cierto atractivo. Si supiera que iba a funcionar…»”

“Creo que es un mito que el cantante necesita la atención. Las bandas perpetúan ese mito.”

“Yo no tengo ningun problema con el alcohol.. a no ser que haya un bar cerca.”

“Si la música está muriendo, son los músicos quienes la están matando.”

“La venganza es buena. Creo que la venganza también es sana, y si puedes usar la música de esa manera, una especie de forma terapéutica para ti mismo, no puede hacer ningún daño. Así que si King (For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime) está enojado de alguna manera, está enojado en una aleatoria, caótica y sana manera. Al igual que el tipo que entra a un edificio, dispara un montón de agujeros en la pared y luego se va. Él no mató a nadie.”

“Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day…Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.”

“Recently, a girl chained herself to me with hand-cuffs after a gig, just because I refused to talk to her. I politely declined, though. I am a well-bred boy. I don't want to be too specific, but… it got pretty ugly.”

“Big Jim is over and out, as far as I am concerned.”

“Despite the aural onslaught, King (For A Day) is not an assault I think it's us being us, more than anything. I think we finally had the resources to be us on this record.”

“Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.”

“It's (RV) about a slob sitting around who doesn't do anything. I kind of identify with it.”

“Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. "All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.”

“There's a lot of positive stuff to say about him… Why can't I think of any now? (laughs) Oh, here's something positive: Big Jim's best trait of character was that he has always been himself… which was his worst trait of character at the same time.”

“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.”

“I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.”