Creativity Quote by Wayne Coyne

Coyne’s line is a small act of demystification, but it’s also a defense of mystery. By admitting that titles sometimes arrive “with the songs” and sometimes get slapped on “afterwards,” he punctures the rock-folk fantasy that inspiration is a clean lightning bolt: chorus, meaning, and label all descending at once. The casual phrasing - “just sorta” - matters. It’s the sound of a working artist refusing to pretend every choice is sacred.

The subtext is about authorship and narrative control. A title is the first interpretation a listener receives, a piece of packaging that steers emotion before a note is even processed. When Coyne says you might “make something up,” he’s not confessing fraud; he’s describing the real job: translating a messy, half-conscious feeling into a handle people can carry. Sometimes the music generates its own name because the concept is already coherent. Other times the track is pure texture, mood, or accident, and the title becomes retroactive meaning-making - a caption added to a dream.

Placed in Coyne’s broader context (The Flaming Lips’ mix of cosmic sincerity, playful spectacle, and studio experimentation), the quote reads like an ethos statement: art can be both deeply felt and lightly constructed. It also nods to the marketing reality musicians live in. Songs can be fluid; catalogs can’t. A title is a compromise between the private chaos of creation and the public need to file, share, search, and remember.