Eyedea quotes:

I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z, Eminem, Ludacris, Cee-Lo. They're groundbreaking.

I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.

You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

It's so fun to be in love or so I've heard, the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word

I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?

I'm a live wire in a dead world,

This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it

Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

Heaven ain't something someone else can give.. It's all inside of me

I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

What don't kill me will just make me crazier

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.

I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile

When my soul steps to exit this frame, I will be reincarnated as rain.

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion

I know you feel alone, but just look up at the stars, and everything that is out there is what you really are

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

No one knows what happens when we think therefore we can never really ever know anything

This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

The stress that we [with Abilities] always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That's our plight, it's ingrained in our personalities. We feel like we're trying to race the world of music itself - just trying to create the best music, and as soon as we get done with one piece we're trying to figure out how to top it.

Everything is something, but something is nothing.

I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the now

I like a girl who's smart, they have to be able to grasp witty sarcasm.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

We're inspired by groups who always try to change and get better.

We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.

I listen to The Beatles, we both [with Abilities] listen to everything.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

There's [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.

I like that Sleepy Brown guy who's down with Andre. He's so great.

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.

The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.