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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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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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You know what. I’m done.” I was tired of living check to check. I knew I could go back and DJ and make a living doing it no problem. I told her if you want to move back, I’m down. We just have to save some money. She got all happy. When I woke up the next morning Incubus’ lawyer called me, and then Mikey (Einziger) called me about 5 minutes later. And then the day after that I tried out. Two days later we were on the road. I think we did almost 300 shows on that tour. It was maybe only two or three months after S.C.I.E.N.C.E. came out.
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
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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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I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.
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I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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"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.
