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Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips: ‘It was insane. We all could have died’


The frontman talks about sharing a joint with Paul McCartney, a gig in Texas that almost went very wrong and his gruesome party trick

When I first interviewed you at Harvest festival in Sydney in 2011, you showed me a photo on your phone of decapitated human heads in a large freezer. A lot of times we’re meeting people – and I think it’s just the nature of the type of music that we do – who are willing to tell us about really tragic, sad things in their life. Wayne Coyne and Miley Cyrus perform onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music awards.

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