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Flaming Lips\\u2019 Wayne Coyne on the profound influence of punk rock in his life: \\u201cPrevious to that, you didn\\u2019t know that art was fucked up. To be a musician meant, \\u2018You\\u2019ve gotta know music. If you don\\u2019t know music, you don\\u2019t belong here.\\u2019 When really, some of the greatest musicians would say just the opposite \\u2014 \\u2018Don\\u2019t worry about that, fuckin\\u2019 do your thing.\\u2019 But in this world, when you\\u2019re young and surrounded by a bunch of know-it-alls, everybody wants to tell you, \\u2018This is how it works and you don\\u2019t know nothin\\u2019.\\u2019 And you\\u2019re innocent, you believe them and say, \\u2018Well, I wanna try to do it my way.\\u2019 I was lucky punk rock came along. And I really did relate to John Lydon, I really did relate to the guys in Duran Duran and even Anthony Kiedis and Red Hot Chili Peppers. They just said, \\u2018Fuck it, we\\u2019re gonna do it our way and we don\\u2019t care.\\u2019 Beastie Boys. Having that inspiration, you can\\u2019t know how valuable that is. Suddenly what you thought might be true, they\\u2019re living it saying, \\u2018Yeah, it\\u2019s true.\\u2019 We started to do more and more shows and Black Flag came through here and played and the Minutemen came though here and played and the Replacements. And all these people, Sonic Youth came here and they would sleep on our couch and we\\u2019d talk to them and it\\u2019d be like, \\u2018We\\u2019re not alone.\\u2019 And I think that\\u2019s such a powerful bond, and it\\u2019s even more of a bond than just doing music. To know that there\\u2019s this thing, that you can do it, you can be a part of it. They\\u2019re inspiring you and you\\u2019re inspiring them, and it\\u2019s amazing. It\\u2019s knowing, \\u2018I\\u2019m not stupid for thinking this. I\\u2019m not purposely being an outsider.\\u2019\\u201d