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" 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. "

Wayne Coyne

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" We made music that wouldn't be in synch. "

" Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie. "

" Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best. "

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

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" With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. "