You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

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.

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

I've always found that sci-fi fans are unbelievably generous.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

We worship money instead of honour.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.