As You Get Older, You Accept That

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.

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.

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.

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.