Wayne Coyne Quotes

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

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.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we go, Oh my god - I didn't know that was in here. We can never go back to the way we were. It's like a horrible car accident - you're never the same after that. It's something that you'll think about every day for the rest of your life.

Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

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.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone ... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Goodness is not something that exists in the Universe and that's why, when it happens, when someone comes up to you and they love you and care for you, you can say, "Fuck! That's a big deal." If it was the natural order to love and care, as the hippies would have you believe, then what would there be to celebrate?"
- Wayne Coyne, quoted in MOONDUST by Andrew Smith

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.

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

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.

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.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on ... we just go on there is no mercy killing.

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

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.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I think the more music becomes something you could simply download and have on your iPod, I think to a lot of people that is plenty, but to some people, they still want these artifacts that are touchable, and you can smell them, and look at them, and hold them and just have other dimensions of experience with this music.

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

I think that most of the people I'm dealing with, they're a lot like me. So I'm not pushing people that don't want to do something; most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to.

I don't know where the sun beams end
and the starlight(start of our lives) begin(s), it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch ... and then we'd beat them up as well.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

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.

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.