A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.

I think making movie is kind of like getting fat people to walk 20 miles. If you just do it 100 yards at a time, and nobody knows how far they are going, they can do it!I would include myself in those fat people! You do this little by little and you don't realize your potential, or you don't realize how really rich, and how far you can go.

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

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

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

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.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.