Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

Life, life.

It is proper #netiquette to be conservative in messages you send and liberal in messages you receive. NetworkEtiquette.net

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

When you're with another tea smoker it makes you feel a special kinship.

This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.