John Flansburgh

Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

— John Flansburgh

To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

— John Flansburgh

All rock music is fake news.

— John Flansburgh

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

— John Flansburgh

We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

— John Flansburgh

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

— John Flansburgh

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"

— John Flansburgh

That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

— John Flansburgh

People love fact-based songs, which is a very funny idea.

— John Flansburgh

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want…

— John Flansburgh

In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and…

— John Flansburgh

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis,…

— John Flansburgh

Every declarative statement that comes out of an interview with somebody is actually in response to a question. It's like this very…

— John Flansburgh

You're like, "I don't want to argue with Dr. Drew on national radio." You're like the invited guest. But at the same…

— John Flansburgh

So we've done science songs. We've done historical songs. A lot of people would like us to do more historical songs. Our…

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I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our…

— John Flansburgh

We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often…

— John Flansburgh

The main thing that we're doing is thinking we can control anything, which is the biggest false assumption we can make. I…

— John Flansburgh

That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity…

— John Flansburgh

I guess the revival of vinyl records is not helping the environmental problem. Although, in some ways, people don't throw records away…

— John Flansburgh

The simplest app on your smartphone requires 40 peoples' purest imagination. The challenges with people on environment, we just have to open…

— John Flansburgh

Bill O'Reilly knew he could just filibuster and enjoy all the airtime that a full interview would give him, and then also…

— John Flansburgh

I don't think bands should feel compelled to speak out unless they actually have something to say. I think that's a big…

— John Flansburgh

If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just…

— John Flansburgh

Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for…

— John Flansburgh

We're affable guys in They Might Be Giants. We're not gonna do the periscope-down thing, but it's a little bit mind-bending. The…

— John Flansburgh

Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and…

— John Flansburgh

It's always interesting to me when one platform of media crosses into another. We've been on the Terry Gross show Fresh Air…

— John Flansburgh

There is a fact-based belief system available to you if you want to believe in facts. But this is the weirdest time.…

— John Flansburgh

Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier…

— John Flansburgh

It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the…

— John Flansburgh

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

— John Flansburgh

There's so many simple things that can be done to change our carbon footprint, and to reduce our carbon footprint.

— John Flansburgh

There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No.…

— John Flansburgh

I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious.…

— John Flansburgh

Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we…

— John Flansburgh

In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an…

— John Flansburgh

This happened years and years ago, right as our videos were first being played on MTV. The interviewer said, "You guys are…

— John Flansburgh

For instance, our music, They Might Be Giants, has this element of humor, which is probably the most uptight part of what…

— John Flansburgh