Quotes from Stephan Jenkins

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

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

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 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.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

It's important to face down your demons.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

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.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

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.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.