Brandon Boyd Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Big Brother is watching... look busy.”

“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.”