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.

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.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

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."

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

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.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.