Brandon Boyd Quotes

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

I have always idolized eccentric people.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

You're always first when no one's on your side.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Never underestimate a dumb question.

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

Nothing is indeed "true."

Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole.

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.