I Want To Know What You're Thinking,

You Want The World To Be What You Want It To Be, And Sometimes The World Doesn't Want That.

To Try To Please People Is An Endless Chasing Of One's Own Tail. That's Not Very Satisfying, So We Do What We Like And That Satisfies Us. When It Does Work Out, Its A Bonus, Really.

Even Though I Don't Have Any Kids Of My Own, I Love This Idea Of Family And Taking Care Of Things.

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."

Sometimes The Song Title Comes With The Songs, Other Times You Just Sorta Make Something Up Afterwards.