On art’s impact:

I see the world the same way as everybody else. I see the same wonderful, beautiful world that we’re all involved in. I just use my imagination and my creativity and follow that and I think that’s why art works — I’m not, like, some weirdo from another planet. I think I’m seeing the world that you’re seeing, the way everybody does.

I think that’s why art is important, because we all feel the same emotions, really. It’s part of the experience. And I think the ones that we relate to the most are the bad ones. Happiness is this fun, elusive thing. Being happy and being excited and healthy and all that, that’s great, but when people are sad or bad things happen to them, we go inside of ourselves and wonder, “What is life? What about life is worth living? What is the meaning of life? Will I give too much of myself if I love too much?” Those are questions that all people have to grapple with.

So something like music is where we’ve found ourselves grappling with that or wanting to understand that, or being in that. I think that’s why art works, because you start wondering about those questions when you’re faced with it. And there are no answers; there is no one answer. Sometimes the answer is like an abstract answer. And art is like that.

And when you’re inside the “King’s Mouth” and all that [sensory] stuff is happening, I think you understand what it is saying. And then when it’s over, you go back to being you and you have some other view, another experience that lets you say, “I know something that I didn’t know,” even though you maybe can’t put it into words. I think that’s why art is art.

NWA Democrat-Gazette/CHARLIE KAIJO Artist Wayne Coyne (center right) reacts as he gives a spin art demonstration during his visit to Springdale on Aug. 10.

NWA Democrat-Gazette/CHARLIE KAIJO Inside Wayne Coyne’s “King’s Mouth”