Love Quote by Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne is bragging about imperfection with a grin, and it lands because it’s not really about mistakes at all. It’s a flex on the kind of sterile “good taste” that can smother rock music (or any art) into competency. “We love it” signals a band ethos, not a lone-genius myth: a shared appetite for risk, for leaving the seams visible. The jab in “better than something you could think up” isn’t just audience-baiting; it’s a shot at overplanning, at the safe imagination that never endangers itself enough to surprise anyone.

The line works because it flips the usual hierarchy. Typically, a mistake is a deviation from intent; here, the deviation becomes the point. Coyne treats error like an instrument: feedback, an accidental harmony, a lyric that slips wrong and suddenly tells the truth. That’s deeply Flaming Lips in spirit, coming from a band whose catalog often sounds like it’s held together by duct tape and wonder - noisy, sentimental, science-fair psychedelic, emotionally earnest in a way that shouldn’t work but does.

Subtextually, it’s also a defense mechanism against perfectionism and critique. If you can frame your misfires as discoveries, you’re no longer auditioning for approval; you’re documenting a process. And there’s a cultural moment embedded in it: a pushback against polished, quantized, algorithm-friendly music-making. Coyne champions the human artifact - the glitch that proves someone was there, trying something that might fail, and occasionally failing into something alive.