Wayne Coyne
Wayne Coyne
Wayne Michael Coyneis an American musician. He is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 January 1961
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
phones three four
A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.
depressing art so-sad
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
play playing-music
We love playing music but were too weird to play music.
thinking madness good-things
I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
love-is magic
Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.
mistake thinking making-mistakes
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
kings suits-you santa
If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.
love-is
Love is larger than life.
work-out people trying
To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.
loss comforting black
It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.
people creative together
Advertising agencies come to you and they are great fans, they are great creative people themselves, but they ask you to do something, and you say, "Well, we will, we'll create something together." And it is work. It's like you're doing something and they're saying, "Change this" and "Change that." It's not hard, horrible work, but creatively it's not just freedom.
moving-on years done
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.
thinking hands people
I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.
caring thinking people
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.