I've spent several years now with my head down.
I've spent several years now with my head down.
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
I've always identified with the misfits.
Well, we get to play in front of people who go out and spend their money on tickets, and I'm completely overwhelmed by that.
I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
Sex is funny and love is serious.
I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.
It's important to face down your demons.
I find pleasure in things that are simple.
I love people who look like they have a chip on their shoulders, like Alicia Keys.
But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
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.
I learned that you cannot put the relationship second. Because love is not enough.
My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
I'm now getting back to the authentic, to the nitty-gritty.
I thought we'd be a critic's band.
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.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
Every celebrity relationship where the engagement is announced and talked about, you know these things are just doomed.
So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
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.
It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
Luxury and ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.
You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
Well, I would sit on the bed with my guitar, write these really personal songs, and then take them around the world.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories