Mayhem Quotes

Three or four times, I`ve pulled a gun on somebody. I had a problem after Charles Manson, deciding to get a gun. But I didn`t want somebody coming in my house and committing mayhem. The Hillside Strangler victims - one of the girls was found in back of my Los Angeles house. My next-door neighbor was murdered, strangled in the bathroom. Mulholland Drive is full of crazy people. We have nuts coming up and down all the time.

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I`m confident that we`ll eventually figure it out.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

It does not appear that a lot of people got together in advance, but I do believe that some people started the day, with intent to cause mayhem.

It`s a totally different situation. It was mayhem. He`s coming to defense of a loved one. Ours was craziness.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

I realized later on that a lot of times I`d go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written.

On the (Simpsons) TV show, a joke has to pass muster about 100 times before it gets on the air. On the movie, it`s probably 1,000 times. There are jokes that were funny the first 350 times, and then, the 351st time, we go, `Ah, I`m kinda tired of that`, so we change it. And what stays in are the most obvious, dumb, visceral, knee jerk, mayhem gags. Any time a character falls down, gets kicked in the face, hit in the head... anything involving head injuries. We work so hard on the wittiest dialog, involving sophisticated references to books and movies, and then what gets a laugh is Homer belching after drinking beer. It keeps you humble.