You Want To Be Influenced

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.

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.

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."

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.

Love Is Not A Magic Gravity That Keeps Everything Up.