A brush with death at 16 left frontman Wayne Coyne looking on the bright side. At 63, he has no plans to tone things down.
When he was 16, Wayne Coyne got a job at a Long John Silver’s fast-food joint in his hometown of Oklahoma City. About a year later, three men with guns burst into the restaurant and ordered him and the staff to lie on the floor. Coyne found himself with a gun pointed at his head. The men were yelling at him and his co-workers, telling them they were going to kill them unless they could get into the locked safe. As Coyne lay there on the cold floor, he assumed he was going to die.
“I didn’t realise it was life-changing at the time, but as my life went on, I saw that being so young and having that jumpstart on not giving a f--- really helped me. I wouldn’t recommend anybody having to go through what I did, but it showed me what was important in my life.” “Having kids is the best thing that has ever happened to me,” he says. “I know everyone says that, but it’s true. My theory is that if you give them absolutely all your love and all of your attention, somehow their energy gets thrown back into you, but only if you give everything.”Coyne is renowned for his relentlessly upbeat nature, but we’re speaking just nine days after Donald Trump was elected US president for the second time.
“A friend of ours, Nell Smith, died in a car wreck a couple of weeks ago. When things like that happen you really don’t think about who’s president. Life is bigger than that. I mean, I wish Trump had lost, but it is what it is.”The band had taken 17-year-old Smith under their wing when she was a kid – she and her father were big fans – and recorded an entire album of Nick Cave songs with her, released in 2021 as.
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