Brandon Boyd Quotes & Sayings

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. — Brandon Boyd

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

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. — Brandon Boyd

There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into. — Brandon Boyd

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

I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos. — Brandon Boyd

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

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

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

People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations. — Brandon Boyd

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music. — Brandon Boyd

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face. — Brandon Boyd

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to. — Brandon Boyd

Big Brother is watching ... look busy. — Brandon Boyd

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

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light. — Brandon Boyd

I have always idolized eccentric people. — Brandon Boyd

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

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

I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry. — Brandon Boyd

I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment. — Brandon Boyd

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. — Brandon Boyd

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

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

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. — Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done. — Brandon Boyd

The world is a drought when out of love. — Brandon Boyd

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone. — Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches.
We all float face-down. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

Nothing is indeed "true." — Brandon Boyd

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. — Brandon Boyd

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

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

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. — Brandon Boyd

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

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate. — Brandon Boyd

I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. 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. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to. — Brandon Boyd

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! — Brandon Boyd

If I turn into another, dig me up from under what is covering the better me — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you. — Brandon Boyd

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good ... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned. — Brandon Boyd

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

Never underestimate a dumb question. — Brandon Boyd

We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless. — Brandon Boyd

The world is a rollercoaster, and i am not strapped i, maybe i should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air — Brandon Boyd

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

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. — Brandon Boyd

No regrets. Never never any regrets. Everything has been an experience and has led to me now. Everything has been important and essential. Fear ... I'm afraid of what people, including myself, are capable of, but it also excites me. I'm afraid of the atrocities that we are capable of and the things that can happen if everyone makes decisions based on fear ... — Brandon Boyd

That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea. — Brandon Boyd

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

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

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. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

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

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

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

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art. — Brandon Boyd

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd

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. — Brandon Boyd