Explore Quotes by 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.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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