Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the lead singer, occasional backing vocalist, guitarist, theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips.
Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes.
I think making movie is kind of like getting fat people to walk 20 miles. If you just do it 100 yards at a time, and nobody knows how far they are going, they can do it!I would include myself in those fat people! You do this little by little and you don't realize your potential, or you don't realize how really rich, and how far you can go.
I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
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.
As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.
Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
We love playing music but were too weird to play music.
Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to.
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone. . . truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
I do think there is a segment of people in Oklahoma that really do love the Flaming Lips and love this other idea of what someone from Oklahoma could be like. I've sort of become the spokesperson for this "other person" who could come from Oklahoma.
Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.
I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that. "
I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.
I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.