I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

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.

The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.