Quotes by Stephan Jenkins

• You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
• It's important to face down your demons.
• My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
• Sex is funny and love is serious.
• That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
• There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
• When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.
• It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
• 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.
• What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
• So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
• I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.
• I've spent several years now with my head down.
• I've always identified with the misfits.
• I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
• I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.
• I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.
• I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
• But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
• 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.
• I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
• A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
• But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
• Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
• Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
• I find pleasure in things that are simple.
• I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.