Wayne Coyne Quotes on Time (4 Quotes)

The way that I work is not that much different from the way I would do a painting or even the way that we record our music a lot of the time. We go in and we have a lot of energy and enthusiasm for things that we want to happen and sort of try to shape them up. But if we're lucky, something emerges that's really better than what we intended and we'll go with that. If we're lucky, 'Christmas on Mars' will continue to do that. We'll have built the sets and have actors there, and of course there'll be things for them to say and all that, but something marvelous will happen and we'll be able to incorporate that into the idea of what we wanted to do and it will be better and more expressive and more communicative and more emotional - all those things that I think all artists intend to do.

I don't think you could be making any art in the atmosphere that we're in now with the war and the different ways people feel about the Bush administration and all that without having some things that sort of, not address that specifically, but address this whole idea of what you do with power. When is the time to have mercy And when is the time to be aggressive I think we have some things on the record that I hope will stand the test of time long after this war is over and all these young guys have come home.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

This album is bigger and more lush than our previous stuff, ... We had the musicality and the ambition and the time to be more lush this time, to make more normal music.