Wayne Coyne
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"Wayne Michael Coyne" is an American musician. He is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips.

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Their opinion can truly shape what the rest of the audience thinks of you.

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I don't want anyone to think that I really am trying to overthrow the government with our music, or stop the war with our music ? that's just for fools.

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It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

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Music - music that moves you - usually comes because something horrible has happened to you. It's cathartic. I think music does that better than almost any other art form, because most of our lives are about things that don't work out.

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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.

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I don't think all the record has a radical, political, overthrow-the-government sort of vibe to it, but I think some of it does. But I don't want anyone to think that I really am trying to overthrow the government with our music, or stop the war with our music - that's just for fools.

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There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

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They're going to enjoy themselves almost regardless of what the bands do. We're just the dumb entertainment in the corner.

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Yeah, people always get that wrong about me. I only took acid a few times, and never while I was in the band. I mean, most of the good rock things that I've done were actually done before I was in a rock band, like doing cocaine and having sex with people that you don't really know.

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