As You Get Older, You Accept That

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.

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

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.

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.