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."

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.

I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.

I think that most of the people I'm dealing with, they're a lot like me. So I'm not pushing people that don't want to do something; most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.