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Alive with Steve Burns

What Does Success Look Like? with Wayne Coyne

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0588 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Steve catches up with his good friend, Wayne Coyne, to chat about what it means to be successful.   Wayne Coyne is an American musician known primarily as the founder, lead vocalist, and songwriter for the Flaming Lips, a psychedelic rock band from Oklahoma. The celebrated band has found acclaim and many awards through several indie breakout records.    Our listeners get 10% off their first month with BetterHelp. Go to betterhelp.com/stevealive. Promo code: stevealive.   Head to ComicConTheCruise.com/ALIVE to learn more and book your cabin — and don’t forget to use code ALIVE for $250 off per cabin on new reservations! You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe.  Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Lemonada

0:02.0

Hey, there you are.

0:03.0

Good to see you.

0:19.0

Come on in. Welcome to Alive. Okay, here's kind of a tricky question.

0:50.3

I mean, I know for a fact I've considered myself a failure before.

0:56.1

I mean, that seems easy.

0:57.7

But success seems trickier, like a moving target or something.

1:02.0

I made tea. Do you want tea?

1:07.2

It's kind of tough to define, but at the same time,

1:10.0

I mean, I know it's something I'm supposed to want or something I'm supposed to strive for or pursue and then someday have.

1:24.6

Here you go.

1:25.9

But what is it, right?

1:31.0

Like, what does it mean? it is it is it is it money is it a family is it um power is it prestige is it uh a kid's TV show?

1:47.6

Is it a trophy?

1:49.3

Is it something you earn?

1:51.1

Is it something you build?

1:53.5

I guess my question is,

1:56.6

what is success?

2:06.6

Yeah. What is success? Okay.

2:07.8

All right.

2:09.5

Let's go.

2:12.6

Okay.

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