When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you 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.

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.

It's important to face down your demons.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you were given.

Perhaps that’s the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change.

You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.