Brandon Boyd: Trending quotes

“Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.”

“Before you swim, you gotta be okay to sink.”

“It's just another day in the life of apes with ego trips.”

“Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink,
Now think of your body as the pen where the ink resides.
Fuse the two - Kapow! What are you now?
You're the human magic marker, won't you please surprise my eyes?”

“Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy!”

“My biggest fear will be the rescue of me.”

“If you really want to live, why not try and make yourself?”

“Just undo yourself and see a second sun ascend.”

“Your love is a verb here in my room.”

“There's so much more to get than wronged.”

“I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.”

“Lyrically speaking, I know that there were a lot of things going on in and around the world and there were some very specific people in my mind coming dangerously close to having megolomaniacal tendancies and so I did my best to write those thoughts down.”

“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”

“Floating down a river named Emotion…will I make it back to shore, or drift into the unknown?”

“Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.”

“I am bottled, fizzy water, and you are shaking me up.”

“In my opinion, so much of it is really about what you had in mind when you got into it: was it only that you wanted to be a rockstar and see your name in lights? I never really had those kinds of dreams. I knew I loved music and I knew that when I sang in a certain way it made my chest and my whole stomach tickle and I liked it. It still does that same thing to me; I know I’m doing it right when it makes my core tingle a little bit. I get the same feeling when I’m painting a picture or when I get into that almost hypnotic state of writing – those things are incredible and those are the kinds of things that attract me to creativity.”

“Will I ever get to where I'm going?
If I do, will I know when I'm there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction,
Would I even care?
I would.”

“I've had all that I can take and exploding seems like a definite possibility to me.”