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.

We love playing music but were too weird to play music.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

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

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.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.