Incubus Quotes
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I remember right one of the coolest scratch things that I think I’ve done is the “11 am” riff and that’s me beat juggling an old school Indian record that I have. I remember Mikey heard it and said, “Well I have this riff and let’s put them together.” That’s what happened. Me and Mikey actually do that a lot. Mikey is really open minded about crazy, weird music.
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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've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
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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.
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It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
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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.
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I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
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I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.
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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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Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
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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.
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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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Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.
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I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
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"My fans are the best ever! thank you for voting for me on being a great drummer. it means the world to me that you guys cared enough to vote"
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If you have a smile on your face and you make a lot of noise, people really really think you know what you are doing.
