Quotes from Brandon Boyd

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.

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

I'm not an alarmist, but someone should break the glass, and pull that red T-Lever down!

I have an open-door policy when it comes to blame.

You're so much more endearing with the sound turned off.

Put down your hollow tips, And kiss your lover's lips, And know that fate is what we make of it.

Even straight roads meander.

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

Floating down a river named Emotion...will I make it back to shore, or drift into the unknown?

I marvel at the stars, and feel my heart overflow.

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.

I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.

On the back of every right, there's a wrong looming.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

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.

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

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.

the world is a rollercoaster, and i am not strapped i, maybe i should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.