It's important to face down your demons.

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.

accept yourself, it will inspire others to do the same for themselves.

You would be highly surprise with how much you could achieve if you would let go of a lot of negative habits in your life and start attending to your dreams with more consistent actions.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I've always been in a mindset where I can lose a K but still smile cuz I know it's coming back another day.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.