You Can't Really Imagine Every Moment Of

I Want People To Be Ecstatic But To Cry At The Same Time.

Without Art, Without Communicating, We Wouldn't Live Beyond 30 Because We'd Be So Sad And Depressed.

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 If You're Lucky, You Start To Make Music And It Gets Things Out.

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