I've spent several years now with my head down.

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.

Angel I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It's only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.