I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.

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.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Your true self is a boundless spiritual being. You are spirit in body.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom