I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

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 applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes of likes and dislikes may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

A falcon is the perfect hunter.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

I'm strong and spiritual, and I know that everything will work out for a reason.

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.