The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

There was more haywire in the Superdome than there was standing in the water. Kids were getting raped.

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.