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

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.

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Literature is the immortality of speech.