During the writing process, I TEND not to listen to too MUCH music. I obviously wear a LOT of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.
A misfit LIKE me GETTING anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' KIND of out of REACH, or not a very realistic take.
When I WOULD be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it REALLY was just having not to be a MONKEY for a few hours a DAY. And FULFILLING the need to be a man.
For me, some things, like, I just don't want to know what they are before I EAT them. Like, if you're GOING to start FEEDING me, like, sexual organs of animals, or, like, a MONKEY's brain or SOMETHING - I'll eat it. Just don't tell me what it is until after I've finished it.
PEOPLE have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my FANS, why not put the two TOGETHER?'
The FIRST movie I ever SAW was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey HUSTLE.' Like I said, just listen to the NAME. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I WANTED to look like.