I Want People To Be Ecstatic But

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."

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

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.

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."

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?"