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As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.
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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.
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You think of rock ‘n’ roll and you think of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, You think of tons of strippers and mounds of cocaine and people destroying hotel rooms and stuff like that. But none of that happens with us. At least not yet, We’ve destroyed dressing rooms…but it was with fruit.
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They're doing a tour that's sponsored by MySpace with a lot of other bands that are probably heavy rock. They're gonna stick out like a sore thumb. It'll be really cool.
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!
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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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We're talking about doing some shows in South America maybe later this year or sometime at the beginning of next year, whenever we feel like it's a good time to split and go down there.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm really proud of her. A lot of good things are happening for her, and a lot of people are starting to pick up on her music. I'm sure we'll do more musical adventures together in the future.
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I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.
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Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
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We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.
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We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.
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I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.
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I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.
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I remember when they called me to try out for them. I think we had maybe an hour-long tryout. Forty-five minutes of that I didn’t even set my gear up. We just sat there and talked about conspiracy theories and the meaning of life and what our beliefs are. I remember Brandon and I found out that we were both Aquarius’s and we started buddying up with each other. Then Mikey had some crazy, wild stuff to talk about and we just ended up talking. I think for them that was actually as important as my musical ability. They wanted someone that they could get along with and they could bare while we’re on the road.
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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.
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Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.
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With Incubus, it’s like my oracle of craziness. I can create with anything I want, and my band members encourage me to do that.
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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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I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.
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"I look down at the front row and it used to be all guys. Now it’s like half guys and half girls. Sometimes you see the look on their face — they’re like in terror. They can’t believe the crowd gets this rowdy," And it’s cool, man. We feed off them and they feed off us. It’s very circular.