I Embrace The Idea That I'm An

I Remember When My Father Was Dying, I Remember Listening To Bjork, And Listening To John Coltrane, And These Things, And I Don't Know Why But Music Has The Power To Transcend Your Physical Being And Take You Up Just A Little Bit.

Eating Good Things And Being Around People Who Are Happy - 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. 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."

Without Art, Without Communicating, We Wouldn't Live Beyond 30 Because We'd Be So Sad And Depressed.

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.