I Know That Is Absolutely

We Are All Really Alone. We're Isolated In Our Own Mind.

I Think That Most Of The People I'm Dealing With, They're A Lot Like Me. So I'm Not Pushing People That Don't Want To Do Something; Most Of The People Have A Billion Things Going On, And They Love It.

There's A Cave, We Go Inside Of Ourselves Because We Want To Know More, And We Turn This One Corner And We Go, Oh My God - I Didn't Know That Was In Here. We Can Never Go Back To The Way We Were. It's Like A Horrible Car Accident - You're Never The Same After That. It's Something That You'll Think About Every Day For The Rest Of Your Life.

I Call It "being Interrupted By Success." We Had Done The Soft Bulletin, Which Came Out In 1999, And We Knew We That Were Gonna Make Another Record Before Too Long. But In Between This, We Were Still In This Mode Of Kind Of Just - Not Re-creating What We Could Be, But Kind Of Doing Different Things. For The Longest Time In The Flaming Lips We Were Like, "make A Record, Go On Tour. Come Back, Make Another Record," And You Know, I Think, Frankly, We Were Kind Of Like, "there's More To Life Than Just Recording Records And Going On Tour."

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.