We Are All Really Alone. We're Isolated

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."

Try To Be Happy Within The Context Of The Life We Are Actually Living. Happiness Is Not A Situation To Be Longed For Or A Convergence Of Lucky Happenstance. Through The Power Of Our Own Minds, We Can Help Ourselves.

We Love Playing Music But Were Too Weird To Play Music.

Your Life Is Built On When Love Dies.

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.