I'm Pouring My Guts Out So They

We Are All Really Alone. We're Isolated In Our Own Mind.

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."

I Think When People Think Of Music From Coming From Oklahoma, They Think Of Toby Keith Or Even Garth Brooks Or Even Woody Guthrie. People Think, "why Do We Have To Just Be About The Bible And About Football? Why Can't We Be About Something Like The Flaming Lips?" And I Salute Them! I Say, "well, That's Great If You Want That."

I Would Say Anybody Who's Willing To Listen To Dark Side Of The Moon And Watch The Wizard Of Oz Is Already A Very Sensitive, Creative Person.

There Were A Couple Of Times Where I Shot Things, Or Started Off In One Mode And Thought, "well, I Really Didn't Want To Do That." I Would Just Change My Mind. And Frankly, I Don't Think Anybody Really Cared. I Didn't Have Some Producer That Had Given Me $10 Million, Demanding Results. I Could Just Kind Of Do Whatever I Thought Was Right, And Move In That Way.