Brandon Boyd

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Art is everywhere, and everywhere is 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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'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.”

“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.”