Mark Mothersbaugh Writing Quotations

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

I 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.

Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that and then he just kind of did his little rap over top, some of it was free form and some of it I made up, we all just kind of contributed to it.

When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?"