Brandon Boyd Zitate

seite 3

“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.”

“This isn't coincidence. There's no such thing.”

“Give it time, girl, the fire feels divine.
The sweetest things, they burn before they shine.”

“Kill your doubt with the coldest of weapons: Confidence.”

“Life's a match in a gas tank. Don't ever mourn the ebbing tide.”

“Your tangerine of electricity is ripe and on a vine!”

“What I want, and what I need, is and will always be free.”

“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?”

“Since when did what we paid for colored cloth gauge our gravity?”

“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.”

“Can someone please explain to me your ever-present lack of speed?”

“All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.”

“Maybe if I looked in my heart, I could find a back door.”

“It pains me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live with.”

“Girl, it's time we met and made a mess.”

“You can't make me think like you, mundane.”

“When we get there,
We're going to fly so far away
Making sure to laugh while we experience
Anti-gravity.”

“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.”

“On a burning bridge, your options are minimal at best Depending on where you're standing And how much breath is in your chest If it came down to it Would you high-tail home and hide? Or dance on fire and enjoy the ride?”

“Earth to Bella - You're treading water successfully.
But are you really?
Don't you want to see the deep?
It's not so hard.
Just forgive yourself and feel the water open in.”

“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.”

“I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate!”

“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.”

“The world's a rollercoaster,
And I am not strapped in.
Maybe I should hold with care,
But my hands are busy in the air!”

“I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.”

“I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?”

“Lately I'm beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel.”

“What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.”

“Morning View is I think collectively probably our favorite record that we have made as a band because it was the most effortless… um… in its conception… you know? It was a lot less slaving over parts and trying to just get together in this big beautiful room with a view of the ocean and parts and sounds and melodies and lyrics would just happen… they would just sort of spill out of us without us really trying… so to me that's sort of the most amazing way to write music or do any kind of art, which is by letting it happen… but one of the most important parts in any sort of.. uh… journey so to speak.. Is uh… the ride… and we've had a really good time riding to where ever it is we are going… and I don't even think any of us know particularly where it is going to take us… But it's been really fun sort of chasing it.”