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Brandon Boyd

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.
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Men Voice Writing
Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
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Insecurity Pins Trying
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.
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Art Perfect Writing
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.
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Excited Ideas People
I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that’s now, but when it breaks away, there’s a brand new piece of skin that’s stronger than before. It’s like creation out of chaos.
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Looks Skins Stronger
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.
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Creative Painting Problem
Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It’s an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
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Feelings Radio Sound
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal.
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Illegal Incubus Made
On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.
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Art Levels Play
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
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Art Everything Everywhere
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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Beautiful Mean Thinking
Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can’t make up my mind.
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Fall Love Sky
I have always idolized eccentric people.
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Eccentric Idolized People
Britney Spears. Because she’s a girl, I wouldn’t smack her – I’d lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she’s doing to the youth culture of America.
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Country Girl Poisonous Thinking
I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
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Love Perhaps Thinking
I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can’t walk somewhere, I’ll bike or skateboard.
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Bike Skateboard Walks

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