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The Things That Affect You Most Deeply - The Things That Will Destroy You If You Don't Sing About Them - Are The Things That You Often End Up Singing About. It's Really Just About Saying Those Things That Everybody Thinks But No One Will Say And Making A Connection By Uncovering These Diamonds That Are Inside Of All Of Us That No One Wants To Tell Each Other About.

Music Is Amazing. There's Some Metaphysical Comfort Where It Allows You To Be Isolated And Alone While Telling You That You Are Not Alone... Truly, The Only Cure For Sadness Is To Share It With Someone Else.

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."

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.

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.