120 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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'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 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 am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.