I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

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.

According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

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Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

I bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your weekend?

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.