What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.