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.”

“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.”

“I have always idolized eccentric people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

“I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.”

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

“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.”

“Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”