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

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.

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.

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

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

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

I'm not afraid of anything.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.

I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.