Wayne Coyne Quotes

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

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

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

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

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

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

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

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

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.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

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

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

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

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

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

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.

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

Love is larger than life.

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.

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 some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

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

Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

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

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

Your life is built on when love dies.

Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.

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

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.