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.
A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. . . . . We must not. . . . . assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World. ' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.