Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

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've always identified with the misfits.

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

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

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

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.

It's important to face down your demons.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

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

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

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

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.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

When you graduate from college they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song. Thank God for country music.

Only younger brothers will understand me. Were following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.

Life isn't about being perfect, it's about being perfected.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.

When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father's children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Every morning is new as the last one uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.