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I'm a huge Tchad Blake fan.
I do have a sense of spirituality.
I personally never trusted the audience.
I've still got a lot of tantrums to throw.
I wanted to be Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.
Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.
I had foot problems, and I ended up having to get surgery.
It's great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.
To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.
I'm a video store guy. I like thumbing through things and holding them.
It's hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become.
It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever.
I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.
It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.
I like to think I take care of my body a little bit more, I'm not screaming as much.
You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.
You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.
In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.
You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.
All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all.
If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.
That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.
I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.
I think a lot of people could do with buying a Flying Burrito Brothers record - it does wonders for you.
In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.
But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.
Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.
Most people like to backpack through Europe; I think the States is big enough for you to have an adventure in.
Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.
There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.
But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.
It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.
'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.
At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.
Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.
Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's like a David Lynch movie.
I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.
I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its an insult to the audience.
Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person.
I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of what I write.
I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.
As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and we have to be careful not to offend them.
We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.
I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.
Who is anyone to say who doesn't deserve to come to this country? I'm a mutt, we're all mutts. Immigrants from whatever country are humans, we have to help each other.
To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.
The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even though he didn't know what he wanted to communicate.
Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.
Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.
We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.