Mike Patton

"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 wat…"

"I got one entire song from fortune cookies . 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 p…"

"Oh, have you seen Beavis and Butt-Head when they watch one of our videos and Beavis goes: 'These guys sound just like the Chili Peppers?' As if I haven't heard that one before!"

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

"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 …"

"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…"

"Despite the aural onslaught, King 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."

"It's about a slob sitting around who doesn't do anything. I kind of identify with it."