I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

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.

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

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.

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

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.