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

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.

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.

It's important to face down your demons.

Positive thinking gives positive energy.

I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.

How quickly he fell

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.