Eyedea Quotes

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

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.

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

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

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

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

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

I'm a live wire in a dead world.

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

No one really knows exactly what happens when we think, Therefore we can never really ever know anything...

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

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

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

What don't kill me will just make me crazier

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

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

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

Everything is something, but something is nothing.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

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

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.