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Brandon Boyd
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“We have all the elements of being the worst band in the world: a bass player who’s got some slap-bass shit, heavy riff guitars, a DJ scratching on the songs, a crazy drummer, and a singer who’s in touch with his feminine side. Even our band name is the worst name ever: it evokes imagery of ‘Incubus’ in death-metal writing, with bullet belts across our chests.”
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“She is a girl so I wouldn’t slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think about what she’s doing to the youth of America.”
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“The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.”
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“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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“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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“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”
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“We don't know much about him. We do know that he came from a sperm meeting an egg. Actually, his name is Charles Mulholland. We don't know what he does, but he sure looks like he knows something.”
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Recorded in: On Chuck, Smother 1997
“She has a fascination with Mayan prophecies, and she's writing a book that's sort of her remembrance of her past incarnation. Whatever she applies herself to, she makes it this beautiful, glorious world around her. All of us kids have always been artistic because of her influence.”
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Recorded in: on his mom, Dolly Wiseman. Spin (October 2001)
“When we're making music together, it's like five men making love-in a very platonic sense. It's very erotic, because your spirits are intermingling, you're becoming one. It's also why it can get so heated. You're tapping into this electricity that's very primal.”
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Recorded in: citing reasons for the band's group therapy Spin (October 2001)
“Jose just got a tattoo of an ass tattooed on his ass the other day. It's actually quite fascinating. Confusing, but fascinating. When you come to the show, ask him about it. He'll show you.”
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“If I forgot some stuff, please excuse me; I ate the brown acid at Woodstock '69 and can scarcely remember my own name.”
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“I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about it.”
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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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“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.”
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“I was on an airplane last year when a talk show began playing on the TVs. I decided to start narrating for the people, which is a really great game if you're ever bored enough. I realized a time will probably come when television will watch us if we're watching it, if that hasn't already happened, figuratively or literally. It sounded like some sort of pseudo-Big Brother nightmare, so I wrote it down.”
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“I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?”
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“To think that one's actions could please the masses is indeed a notion bound in irony; 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.”
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“I need a new pair of shoes : I need a new shiny car : I need to buy until I fry : I can not name what I'm trying to : I want my cock an inch bigger : I want new, flawless tits : I'm not enough as I was made, please complete my partial mind : I want my money back, this product has a hole.”
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“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?”
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“I'm sick of limiting myself to fit your definition.”
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“On the surface you hate, but you know you need me.”
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“You can't make me think like you, mundane.”
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“You act as if there's blinders on your eyes!”
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“Can someone please explain to me your ever-present lack of speed?”
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“I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate!”
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“You've been raised in limitation, but that glove never fit quite right.”
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“Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.”
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“When we get there, We're going to fly so far away Making sure to laugh while we experience Anti-gravity.”
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“Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.”
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“Your tangerine of electricity is ripe and on a vine!”
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“I'm born, I'm alive, I breathe, In a moment or two I realize, That the sphere upon which I reside Is asleep on its feet, Should I go back to sleep?”
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“the day you were born, you were born free. That is your privilege.”
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“Maybe if I looked in my heart, I could find a back door.”
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“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.”
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“It seems as though I'm going nowhere really fucking fast.”
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“You think that you're on the brink? The shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan.”
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“Consequence, you'll see, will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes.”
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“Don't let the world bring you down. Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold. Remember why you came, and while you're alive, Experience the warmth before you grow old.”
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“It feels like trading brains with an imbecile.”
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“Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy!”
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“What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.”
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“What I want, and what I need, is and will always be free.”
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“Meet me in outer space.”
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“If you let them make you, They'll make you paper mache. At a distance, you're strong, until the wind comes Then you crumble and blow away.”
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“If you really want to live, why not try and make yourself?”
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“Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.”
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“Lately I'm beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel.”
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“When I drive myself, my light is found.”
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“Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.”
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“I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.”
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