"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."

"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."

"Sex is funny and love is serious."

"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them."

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

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

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

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

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

"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle."

"When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't."

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

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

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

"There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state."

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

"I find pleasure in things that are simple."

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