Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes

Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

We built up a hardcore following, but we were really still semipro, gigging over long weekends and the like. So after EMI signed us, we packed in the day jobs because we had to make an album.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.

The 'Frampton' album sold better than all of the other solo records that I'd had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.

So, hopefully, us finding ways to constantly work, but always with a different product, will help our band play to more people and continue making music.

We're so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we've been a four-piece for over 15 years. We're signed to a major label. We're on our fourth record on a major label. We've won a Grammy. We've toured the world.

We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We wanted to take our band to a level where we could do everything we want to do.

I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people.

I know I can't rap forever, but I know as long as I got a label or something I can get money forever.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.