San Francisco is an interesting place. It’s always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there’s a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com’s so it’s a little different than it used to be. – Les Claypool
I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It’s a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property. – Les Claypool
I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin’ all these years is changin’ it up. – Les Claypool
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me. – Les Claypool
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing. – Les Claypool
More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that. – Les Claypool
For the past couple of years I’ve been pretty bored with music in general… just bored with it. – Les Claypool
Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That’s how you learn and grow. – Les Claypool
You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation – whether it’s a poker game or a bobsled team or a band – it’s gonna change things. And sometimes significantly. – Les Claypool
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing. – Les Claypool
I love character actors. If I’m switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I’m stuck. I have to watch it. – Les Claypool
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it’s your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it. – Les Claypool
I didn’t realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk’s band – we went to high school together. I wasn’t really following metal. – Les Claypool
As I’ve moved through life, I’ve found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing. – Les Claypool
I never think about rhythm versus melody; I’ve always just played to what’s in my head. – Les Claypool
I’ve had fish come up on stage, and it’s pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually. – Les Claypool
To me, if you’re going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I’ve played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He’s the master. – Les Claypool
For me to do a project – I have a pretty successful solo career, so – for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward. – Les Claypool
I’ve always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I’d still be drawing the same pictures… should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same. – Les Claypool
