Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

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.

The freedom is a tear digging into the flesh. (Doina Ruști -Manuscrisul fanariot)

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

The most interesting thing I've ever heard about myrself that isn't true is that I'm not a nice guy.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

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