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
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. – 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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that’s something to smile about. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
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
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it’s done. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can’t walk somewhere, I’ll bike or skateboard. – Brandon Boyd
Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music. – Brandon Boyd
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! – Brandon Boyd
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
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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
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. – Brandon Boyd
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. – Brandon Boyd