I Can See That If This Was

You Want To Be Influenced By The World Because It Has So Many Cool Things About It, But It Also Has A Bunch Of Bad Things About It.

We Wouldn't Be Artists, Writers, Painters, Musicians, If We Weren't Sensitive.

It Is Comforting To Know That There Is At Least One Place Where We Can Go And Be Confident That We Will Find An Audience Thirsting To Find New Music. Paste Magazine Is That Place. It's Loss Would Create A Very Large Black Hole.

Being Around People Who Are Happy And People Who Are Creative, That's What You Do If You're Lucky In Your Life.

I Call It "being Interrupted By Success." We Had Done The Soft Bulletin, Which Came Out In 1999, And We Knew We That Were Gonna Make Another Record Before Too Long. But In Between This, We Were Still In This Mode Of Kind Of Just - Not Re-creating What We Could Be, But Kind Of Doing Different Things. For The Longest Time In The Flaming Lips We Were Like, "make A Record, Go On Tour. Come Back, Make Another Record," And You Know, I Think, Frankly, We Were Kind Of Like, "there's More To Life Than Just Recording Records And Going On Tour."