You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

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.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

There were different moments where I was like, "Okay, this is who I am today." But, when I'm kept on my toes, I'm having the best time of my life.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

I like to make money, I like to have nice things. But I love to act, I love to tell stories.

I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine.

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.