Zitat des Tages von Win Butler:
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.
If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.
Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.
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.
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.
I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.
It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
