I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to.

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.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.