Instagram Is A Great Example Of You

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."

The 'cool' Record Store. It Is Where You Can Talk To People Who Are Like You. They Look Like You, Think Like You And, Most Tellingly Like The Same Music As You - The Only Comparable Experience These Days Would Probably Be An Art Museum - An Actual Place Where You Can Stand And Simply Be Surrounded By Your Heroes.

I'm Pouring My Guts Out So They Can Feel Like Your Guts At The Same Time.

Music Has The Power To Transcend Your Physical Being And Take You Up. Because Music Has A Metaphysical Quality It Really Makes Your Life Beautiful.