I Remember When My Father Was Dying,

I Think That Most Of The People I'm Dealing With, They're A Lot Like Me. So I'm Not Pushing People That Don't Want To Do Something; Most Of The People Have A Billion Things Going On, And They Love It.

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."

I Stopped Caring So Much About What People Might Think If I Sung About Love And Humanity.

I Am Not That Thrilled About The Way Our Records Sound Anyway. Don't Get Me Wrong, I Work Hard On Them And I Want Them To Sound Fantastic But I'm Happy To Have Another Interpretation Of Them Anyway.

We Want, Or Wanted, To Believe That Without Love We Would Disappear, That Love, Somehow, Would Save Us That, Yeah, If We Have Love, Give Love And Know Love, We Are Truly Alive And If There Is No Love, There Would Be No Life. The Terror Is, We Know Now, That Even Without Love, Life Goes On... We Just Go On There Is No Mercy Killing.