I love my iPhone it's great to have a camera around all the time.

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.

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.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.

I dwell in possiblities.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.