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. ”

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. ”

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember. ”

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. ”

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions. ”

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. ”

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child. ”