Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

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.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

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

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

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

I might be bluffing, you miserable, vomitous mass!" Bran yelled. Oh, for heaven's sake. Really? He's quotin' The Princess Bride?

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.