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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.

Brandon Boyd

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.
BRANDON BOYD

Grew Grey Thinking
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.
BRANDON BOYD

Country Girl Poisonous Thinking
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.
BRANDON BOYD

Men Voice Writing
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

Age Birthday Important
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

Believe Heart Play
Never underestimate a dumb question.
BRANDON BOYD

Dumb Questions Underestimate
On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.
BRANDON BOYD

Art Levels Play
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

Creative Painting Problem
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
BRANDON BOYD

Art Everything Everywhere
I have always idolized eccentric people.
BRANDON BOYD

Eccentric Idolized 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.
BRANDON BOYD

Looks Skins Stronger
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.
BRANDON BOYD

Excited Ideas People
I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
BRANDON BOYD

Love Perhaps Thinking
Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.
BRANDON BOYD

Remember Tolerance Two
Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It’s an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
BRANDON BOYD

Feelings Radio Sound
Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
BRANDON BOYD

Insecurity Pins Trying

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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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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