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.

-Wayne Coyne

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

Thinking

Madness

Good Things

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

Thinking

Lucky

Ifs

Your Life, Unfortunately - And I Mean This - Your Life Is Built On When Love Dies. There's A Lot Of Love In Your Life That Will Simply Die. And You Wish That You Died With It, You Know? But You Don't. And You Go, Oh, Well, Here I Am.

Mean

Here I Am

Wish

Most Artists I Run Into Aren't That Thrilled With What They Do Anyway. They Are Glad To Have Different Versions Out There To See Which One The Audience Likes The Best.

Running

Artist

Different

I'll Accept The Pain And The Suffering, Because I Know That In That There's A Lot Of Beauty, Too.

Pain

Suffering

Accepting

I Knew She Was From Australia And I Knew That Is Where She Started But I Didn't Know If She Was Still Popular There. I Hope People Understand We Aren't Making Fun Of Kylie.

Fun

Halloween

Australia

Being Around People Who Are Happy And People Who Are Creative, That's What You Do If You're Lucky In Your Life.

People

Creative

Lucky

I Think I'm Really Lucky That The Things I'm Able To Love - People, Animals - It's Like The More You Put Yourself Into It, The More You Get Out Of It.

Animal

Thinking

People

We Wish That We Could Take Magic Drugs, Play Around All Day, Read, And Do Nothing Strenuous, And Be The Smartest, Happiest People In The World. The Truth Is, It's All About Sweat.

Play

Sweat

People

The Things That Affect You Most Deeply - The Things That Will Destroy You If You Don't Sing About Them - Are The Things That You Often End Up Singing About. It's Really Just About Saying Those Things That Everybody Thinks But No One Will Say And Making A Connection By Uncovering These Diamonds That Are Inside Of All Of Us That No One Wants To Tell Each Other About.

Creativity

Thinking

Singing

Sometimes The Song Title Comes With The Songs, Other Times You Just Sorta Make Something Up Afterwards.

Song

Titles

Sometimes

Life Is Worth Celebrating And Worth Living Even Though We're All Headed To The Same Hole At The End Of The Day.

The End Of The Day

Life Is

Celebrate

If You Have A Song That You Think Sounds Like Another Song You Should Contact The Publishing Company And Say I Have A Song Here, Let's Cut A Deal That Lets Everyone Walk Away Feeling Good.

Song

Cutting

Thinking

I Think That's What Centers Me The Most - All My People, All My Animals.

Animal

Thinking

People

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.

Father

Listening

Dying

Music Is Amazing. There's Some Metaphysical Comfort Where It Allows You To Be Isolated And Alone While Telling You That You Are Not Alone... Truly, The Only Cure For Sadness Is To Share It With Someone Else.

Sadness

Comfort

Eating Good Things And Being Around People Who Are Happy - You Want To Be Influenced By The World Because It Has So Many Cool Things About It, But It Also Has A Bunch Of Bad Things About It. Being Around People Who Are Happy And People Who Are Creative, That's What You Do If You're Lucky In Your Life.

Eating Good

People

Creative

Everything That You Do In Your Life That Helps You Sweat Is Good For You.

Sweat

Helping

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.

Loss

Comforting

Black

We Wouldn't Be Artists, Writers, Painters, Musicians, If We Weren't Sensitive.

Artist

Musician

Sensitive

There Is A Lot Of Melody And Things That Sound Familiar In Hundreds Of Songs.

Song

Sound

Corny

Even Though I Don't Have Any Kids Of My Own, I Love This Idea Of Family And Taking Care Of Things.

Kids

Ideas

Care

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."

Football

Thinking

People

I Want To Know What You're Thinking, You Want To Know What I'm Thinking. But We're Alone. In Our Own Minds. We're Trapped In This Sort Of Isolation.

Thinking

Mind

Want

The 'cool' Record Store. It Is Where You Can Talk To People Who Are Like You. They Look Like You, Think Like You And, Most Tellingly Like The Same Music As You - The Only Comparable Experience These Days Would Probably Be An Art Museum - An Actual Place Where You Can Stand And Simply Be Surrounded By Your Heroes.

Art

Hero

Thinking

Instagram Is A Great Example Of You Just Doing Your Thing.

Example

Instagram

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.

Pain

People

World

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

Mistake

Thinking

Making Mistakes

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

Love Is Larger Than Life.

Love Is

Larger Than Life

Keeping Perspective And Being Happy And Being Energetic And Being Creative - That's All Tied To Being Healthy.

Perspective

Creative

Healthy

I'm Pouring My Guts Out So They Can Feel Like Your Guts At The Same Time.

Pouring

Like You

Feels

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

Depressing

Art

So Sad

Love Is Not A Magic Gravity That Keeps Everything Up.

Love Is

Magic

Gravity

As You Get Older, You Accept That There Are Some Tunnels That Don't Have Any Light In Them, But You Go Down Them Anyway.

Tunnels

Light

Accepting

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.

Dark

Moon

Creative

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."

Thinking

Long

Done

Try To Be Happy Within The Context Of The Life We Are Actually Living. Happiness Is Not A Situation To Be Longed For Or A Convergence Of Lucky Happenstance. Through The Power Of Our Own Minds, We Can Help Ourselves.

Mind

Trying

Lucky

We Want, Or Wanted, To Believe That Without Love We Would Disappear, That Love, Somehow, Would Save Us That, Yeah, If We Have Love, Give Love And Know Love, We Are Truly Alive And If There Is No Love, There Would Be No Life. The Terror Is, We Know Now, That Even Without Love, Life Goes On... We Just Go On There Is No Mercy Killing.

Believe

Love Life

Giving

Sometimes You Just Have To Say, “...i Don't Know What We Are Doing, Let's Just Go And See What Happens.” You Have To Embrace The Experience Itself, So That Things You Didn't Intend To Happen Can Make Your Work More Authentic. And You Have To Hope That It Works.

Sometimes

Embrace

Happens

We Hear So Many Records These Days That Are Done With Click Tracks, As Opposed To A Drummer.

Track

Done

Records

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

Play

Playing Music

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

Asking

Answers

I Can

I Can See That If This Was An Album Done 10 Or 15 Years Ago We Could See We Were Moving On To Some Place Else.

Moving On

Years

Moved On

Love Is The Thing That You Pursue Because It's The Thing That Gives You All This Life, Or You Believe That, Anyway.

Believe

Love Is

Giving

Music Has The Power To Transcend Your Physical Being And Take You Up. Because Music Has A Metaphysical Quality It Really Makes Your Life Beautiful.

Beautiful

Beautiful Life

Quality

I Know That Is Absolutely True For People When They Are Young - You Don't Want To Be Alive If The Things That You Love In Your Life Aren't There.

People

Alive

Want

I Do Think There Is A Segment Of People In Oklahoma That Really Do Love The Flaming Lips And Love This Other Idea Of What Someone From Oklahoma Could Be Like. I've Sort Of Become The Spokesperson For This "other Person" Who Could Come From Oklahoma.

Thinking

People

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

Mind

Isolated

I Wish I Did Believe In God. It Would Be A Great Relief To Think, 'god'll Take Care Of It. God'll Put Gas In The Car Tomorrow'.

Believe

Thinking

Car

Making Movie You Just Think, Well, You Know What You're Gonna Do, And You Just When It Comes Down To The Very Specifics Of It, You Kind Of Have To Rely On Your Mode Of Panic, And How Well Your Imagination And Creativity And All That Works When You're In That Moment. And You Know, Frankly, I Never Worried About That. I Never Worried That As We Moved Into The Very Specifics Of It.

Creativity

Thinking

Imagination

Your Life Is Built On When Love Dies.

Life Is

Built

Dies

You Want To Be Influenced By The World Because It Has So Many Cool Things About It, But It Also Has A Bunch Of Bad Things About It.

World

Want

Bunch

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.

Art

Thinking

Rocks

A Lot Of Times I'll Doodle On Something While I'm Doing Interviews, Because Sometimes I'm On The Phone For Three Or Four Hours And I Want To Get Something Going. I'll Just Start From A Scribble, Or Something That Someone Else Already Put On The Page.

Phones

Three

Four

Everything That You Do In Your Life That Helps You Sweat Is Good For You. Whenever You're Sweating, You're Adding To Your Potential To Enjoy The Day Or Enjoy The Moment Or Enjoy Your Life.

Sweat

Helping

Moments

We Don't Ever Want To Shut Down And Say, I'm Afraid To Go That Far Down The Road Because There's Going To Be Pain. There'll Be Beauty, Too, And If You Stop Here, You Stop All That.

Pain

Want

Down And

You Want The World To Be What You Want It To Be, And Sometimes The World Doesn't Want That.

World

Want

Sometimes

To Try To Please People Is An Endless Chasing Of One's Own Tail. That's Not Very Satisfying, So We Do What We Like And That Satisfies Us. When It Does Work Out, Its A Bonus, Really.

People

Work Out

Trying

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

Caring

Thinking

People

You Can't Really Get The Full Joy Out Of Life Unless You Really Go For It. You Just Have To Go Into It And Stay Under Some Kind Of Hope Or Illusion That It's Going To Work. But As You Get Older, Or The More Experiences You Have, Or Whatever It Is That Tells You How This Stuff Works, You Also Know That If You Go All The Way Into It, There's The Risk Of Losing Everything But You Don't Have A Choice.

Joy

Choices

Risk

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.

Hard Work

Sound

Records

If Santa Claus Came Down The Chimney In A F**king Jogging Suit, You Wouldn't Even Know It Was Him.

Kings

Suits You

Jogging

I Embrace The Idea That I'm An Entertainer.

Ideas

Embrace

Entertainers

I Got Very Lucky That Some Of The Things That I Wanted To Work Did Work. Not Because I Knew What I Was Doing, Just Through Dumb Luck, It Just Looked Beautiful And Sounded Great And Captured Some Magical Mood. And You Just Have To Hope That You Get Lucky When You Do Big Things Like Making A Movie, Or Something.

Beautiful

Dumb

Luck

I Think Making Movie Is Kind Of Like Getting Fat People To Walk 20 Miles. If You Just Do It 100 Yards At A Time, And Nobody Knows How Far They Are Going, They Can Do It!i Would Include Myself In Those Fat People! You Do This Little By Little And You Don't Realize Your Potential, Or You Don't Realize How Really Rich, And How Far You Can Go.

Thinking

People

Kind

The Movie That We Could've Finished In 2001 Would've Sucked. The Movie That We Could've Finished In 2002 Would've Just Been A Disaster, Even Into 2003, It Would've Been Very Cobbled Together, Amateuristic Stuff. But As We Went Along, We Really Did Stumble Upon Some Accidental Themes, And With The Things You Could Do With Computers, And All That Sort Of Stuff Just Sort Of Really Accelerated Into Where The Stuff That We Could Do Right Here At My House Became - You Could Almost Do Anything.

House

Together

Computer

When I Do Yoga, It Gets All Sweaty, And The Best Thing For Dried Up Hair Isn't Shampoo, It's Sweat.

Yoga

Hair

Sweat

I Think That Most Of The People I'm Dealing With, They're A Lot Like Me. So I'm Not Pushing People That Don't Want To Do Something; Most Of The People Have A Billion Things Going On, And They Love It.

Thinking

People

Pushing

I Think The More Music Becomes Something You Could Simply Download And Have On Your Ipod, I Think To A Lot Of People That Is Plenty, But To Some People, They Still Want These Artifacts That Are Touchable, And You Can Smell Them, And Look At Them, And Hold Them And Just Have Other Dimensions Of Experience With This Music.

Thinking

Smell

Ipods

All The Great Things That I Get To Be Curious About, See, And Experience Because I'm Sensitive To The World, It Also Opens Up These Areas Where There's A Lot Of Pain And Suffering. You're Just Aware, Aware, Aware.

Pain

Suffering

World

You Can't Really Imagine Every Moment Of A Movie In The Same Way That You Wouldn't Expect A Novelist To Envision Every Sentence Of His 800-page Novel.

Moments

Imagine

Novel

I Want To Be Able To Shoot Laser Beams Out Of My Hands At People. That's The Kind Of Stuff That You Think All Bands Should Do, But They Don't, And I Can't Understand Why Most Bands Don't Want To Do It.

Thinking

Hands

People

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.

Agency

People

Creative

There's A Cave, We Go Inside Of Ourselves Because We Want To Know More, And We Turn This One Corner And We Go, Oh My God - I Didn't Know That Was In Here. We Can Never Go Back To The Way We Were. It's Like A Horrible Car Accident - You're Never The Same After That. It's Something That You'll Think About Every Day For The Rest Of Your Life.

Thinking

Car

Rest Of Your Life

Occasionally There Are People Who Are Not Like Me, And I Forget That They're More Introverted Or Shy, Or Just Don't Want To Make A Decision So Quickly.

People

Decision

Want

I Always Knew, Since I'm The One Making The Movie, If I Didn't Like It, I'd Just Simply Build Another Set And Do It Again. I Was The One Doing It All, So I Never Really Worried About If I Didn't Like It. I Just Thought, "well, If I Didn't Like It, I'll Just Do It Again! Who Cares?"

Care

Worried

Just Do It

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

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