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MANILA, Philippines—The influence of Incubus on music—especially in the Philippines is incalculable with fans singing their songs in joints all over the metro to Paolo Valenciano singing Talk Show on Mute on ASAP. Incubus’ influence brought together the people of Manila. The all black Pantera T-shirt crowd was there in full force head banging right next to the Louis Vuitton toting young ladies, everyone jumping, screaming and singing to Incubus with one well-pitched voice. Manila holds a special place in their hearts, not because we are the loudest craziest sing-along audience there is in Asia, but because at the time of their first time in Manila for the Crow Left of the Murder tour in 2004 was the biggest audience that Incubus had played to at that point in their careers.

Here in Manila to promote their newest album “Light Grenades,” one will notice that the tracks are more about the struggles and specific nuances of a relationship. Makes you wonder if the three years it took to release the album was the same amount of time it took to heal a broken heart.

Meeting Incubus in person and to have them think of no one but me for five minutes was like transcending into another space-time continuum.

Brandon Boyd is less like a moody rocker and more of a highly intelligent, highly articulate concerned citizen of the world—truly living up to the surf rock and roll lifestyle they are absolutely green minded.

How would you like your music to influence others?

BB: What a lovely question—a really good question! It’s difficult to truly dictate the influence any form of art has on people especially when it’s taken out of context in diff parts of the world. I think the first emotion is gratitude—like wow we are being listened to in the other side of the planet.

But if we were asked for the most basic reaction or influence it would be that it opened somebody’s experience to something new—something they hadn’t heard before certain emotions.

Have your musical influences changed? What are you listening to now?

JOSE: Older music-early 90s classic rock, 80’s Prince, Paul Simon all these records that are timeless—to get ideas and inspiration from the constant growing of that—being influenced by older music—newer music

What do you do for the environment?

BB: I ride a bicycle. I’ve a number of different ones but my favorite one is a Sterley Frame. A bicycle is a simple machine—highly efficient extremely fun they have absolutely no carbon footprints whatsoever and rely purely on human power. And when you live in a city you get there faster than if you had a car.

What does the band do to help the environment?

2007 was the first year we were able to try to erase our carbon foot prints—dates in Europe we did everything that we could we used bio diesel in all the trucks and buses we paid a recycling company to come to the sites where we played to actually recycle everything there and to oversee that the stuff actually got recycled. We ask for locally grown fruits in our riders we are still learning how to be greener in this direction (of the world) in Europe we have got it down.

What’s the best thing about making music?

JOSE: Making and playing music. We started as a hobby and a way to be productive even though we weren’t conscious of that. Get to travel with friends that we love—music moves all us and we just hope to be able to continue to do that.