Love Quote by Brandon Boyd

A joke with a bruise underneath: Boyd frames self-love as contraband, something you’d better practice now before someone in power decides it’s subversive. The line works because it borrows the language of legislation to describe an internal act. Loving yourself isn’t usually treated as a civic threat, yet he implies it can be - which hints at how institutions, markets, and moral panics thrive on insecurity. A population at peace with itself buys less shame and obeys more selectively.

The “I suggest” opener is slyly casual, like a bandmate tossing off a one-liner between songs. That breeziness is the cover; the stakes are existential. “Before it’s made illegal” collapses the personal and political into a single punch: if the culture can police bodies, identities, and desires, why not police confidence, autonomy, or basic self-acceptance? It’s a quip that carries the whiff of censorship, the long American habit of turning private life into a battleground, and the late-capitalist tendency to monetize self-loathing while branding “self-care” as a product.

Coming from a musician, it lands less like a manifesto than a lyric-worthy provocation. It’s built for the crowd: funny enough to repeat, sharp enough to sting. The subtext is permission and warning at once - learn self-regard as a form of resilience, because the world is perfectly capable of making you feel guilty for having it.