So for her the more holes in a garment the better. She even owned a vintage clothing store for a couple of years. Does your girlfriend ever want you to toss some of that stuff? No, my girl is, she's kind of obsessed with vintage. When I have a hole in my socks, my wife is just like, 'Toss it.' You've talked about wearing things until they disintegrate. That will be posted as soon as it's ready. Note: We have video footage of this interview, including Boyd showing us one of his current sketchbooks. It's just a matter of how willing you are to participate in that process … It's fun because you don't really know what you're doing until you do it.' Outside on our 22nd floor patio, Boyd, 36, talked about his worn-down clothing, the band's early days of playing Bar Mitzvahs and his thoughts on Incubus appearing at a future installment of Lolla. ('I think that's why I intentionally but also perhaps unconsciously have pursued art and the creative process is because it uses everything that's here, all the noise, but to pull you back into radical nowness,' he says.) Every Incubus record features a line or song or entire through-line about rising above that noise-a particular favorite, from 'Nice to Know You': 'To obtain a bird's eye is to turn a blizzard to a breeze.' Recently Boyd, who's currently working on his third book of art/photos/poems, has taken to drawing without pencil lines, so 'there's mistakes in there but they become part of the picture,' he says, also noting how a smashed squirt of ink can allow him to find various images within. Any fan of the band, who released its most stripped-down album 'If Not Now, When?' last year and appears today at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, knows that Boyd has long been a person who embraces living in the moment and having perspective about what matters. Just a guy in a porkpie hat, comfortable doing an interview in jeans with a few holes and a T-shirt with more of 'em, without a team of handlers making any decisions.

Brandon Boyd, a giant rock star for nearly the last decade and a half as singer and lyricist for Incubus, arrives in the Tribune Tower lobby by himself.

Incubus band members