We Are All Really Alone. We're Isolated

I Stopped Caring So Much About What People Might Think If I Sung About Love And Humanity.

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.

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.

I Think Some Of The Musicians Are More Like Punk Rock Musicians. It's Like An Art As Opposed To Being A Musician. It's Definitely More Radical Psychedelic Bands, More Than Anything.