Creativity Quote by Wes Borland

Borland turns the knob on modern life and finds a punchline hiding in the quiet. Coming from a musician best known for maximalist sound and visual spectacle, this reads like a sly confession: the loudest people in the room often miss the richest material. "There may be something good in silence" lands as a reluctant discovery, not a monkish principle. The follow-up - "It's a brand new thing" - is the jab. Silence, for many of us, has become so unfamiliar it registers as an innovation, like a new app or a feature update.

The best trick is the paradox of "turning the volume down" to hear more. He's not talking about ears; he's talking about attention. When you reduce the noise you control, the noise you don't control becomes legible: the small, weird arguments in your head, the ambient anxieties, the social scripts you repeat without noticing. "Funniest little discussions" frames that inner chatter as absurd, even lovable - comedy as a coping tool, but also as a method. Humor creates distance, and distance creates insight.

"Shut yourself up, and listen out loud" sounds like stage direction for survival in an always-on culture. It's anti-performative advice from someone whose job is performance: stop narrating yourself, stop competing for airtime, and let listening become an act with presence and volume. The subtext is control. You can't always change the world’s noise, but you can change your relationship to it - and discover that the quiet isn't empty; it's crowded with information.