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
creativity thinking singing
The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.
perspective creative healthy
Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.
tunnels light accepting
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.
mind trying lucky
Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
sometimes embrace knows
Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works
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.