Stephan Jenkins Quotes

I've spent several years now with my head down.

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.

I've always identified with the misfits.

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

I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.

I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

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

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 have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

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

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

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

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

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

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

I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.

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.

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

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

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

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

I play video games, dude!

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.