""Halloween was always my favorite night," admits Danny Elfman, who is reprising his singing role as Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, for the 10th anniversary of the star-studded live version of 1993's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" film. "Christmas time, I was a lonely Jewish kid with no friends to play with, and it would just be me and my brother looking at each other, and he's like, 'I'm gonna kick your ass.'""
""It's amazing that I'm still alive, because I used to irradiate insects and try to create little mutants. This is like when I'm 14, and I built my own Geiger counter. I was a weird little kid. I had radioactive isotopes in my room. In the '60s, you could just order some strontium-90, cobalt-60 and little packets of radioactive test site sand.""
Danny Elfman reprises his singing role as Jack Skellington for the 10th anniversary of the live version of 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Halloween was his favorite night, while Christmas felt lonely growing up as a Jewish child with no friends. Elfman accumulated more than 100 feature film scores and created themes for The Simpsons and Spider-Man, after leading the band Oingo Boingo. As a teenager he experimented with radiation, built a Geiger counter and kept radioactive isotopes in his room. Music initially seemed unattainable, but early jazz exposure and transcribing arrangements launched his musical path; Kim Gordon was an early girlfriend.
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