We Love It When We Make Mistakes

I Think It's Probably A Good Thing To Be Considered Stable, But With A Capacity For Madness.

Maybe There's Some Unquenchable Question That I Keep Asking The Universe That I Can't Get An Answer To.

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.

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 Love It When We Make Mistakes That Are Better Than Something You Could Think Up.