You Want The World To Be What

Advertising Agencies Come To You And They Are Great Fans, They Are Great Creative People Themselves, But They Ask You To Do Something, And You Say, "well, We Will, We'll Create Something Together." And It Is Work. It's Like You're Doing Something And They're Saying, "change This" And "change That." It's Not Hard, Horrible Work, But Creatively It's Not Just Freedom.

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."

It Is Comforting To Know That There Is At Least One Place Where We Can Go And Be Confident That We Will Find An Audience Thirsting To Find New Music. Paste Magazine Is That Place. It's Loss Would Create A Very Large Black Hole.

I Remember When My Father Was Dying, I Remember Listening To Bjork, And Listening To John Coltrane, And These Things, And I Don't Know Why But Music Has The Power To Transcend Your Physical Being And Take You Up Just A Little Bit.

Some People, They Don't Want To Be That Loved, They Don't Want To Be That Involved, They Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Family. That's Where The Pain Comes In. You Want The World To Be What You Want It To Be, And Sometimes The World Doesn't Want That.