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" 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. "

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" 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

People

Out

Same

" I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. "

" Big Brother is watching... look busy. "

" 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. "

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

Brandon Boyd

World

Travel

" I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate. "

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

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

" I have always idolized eccentric people. "

" 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. "

" Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art. "

Brandon Boyd

Everywhere

Art

" 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. "

" 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

Pyramids

Moon

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Write

Perfect

" 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

Face

Music

" 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. "

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

" 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

Listening

Life

" 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. "

" 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. "