I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

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.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people

Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.