Stephan Jenkins Quotes


"It's important to face down your demons."
- Stephan Jenkins
"My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Music, World)

"Sex is funny and love is serious."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Funny, Love, Sex)

"That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Music, First, Sense, World)

"There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: State)

"When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Girls, Talk)

"It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Time, Present)

"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."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Music, Sense)

"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Music, Literature, Moments, Value)

"So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Being, Sound)

"I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears."
- Stephan Jenkins
"I've spent several years now with my head down."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Now, Years)

"I've always identified with the misfits."
- Stephan Jenkins
"I was not someone who participated in other people's castles."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: People)

"I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: People)

"I think if it's not monumental, there's no point."
- Stephan Jenkins
"I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: People)

"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Approval, School)

"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."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: People, Beginning, Blind, Eye, Mind)

"I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Cards)

"A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Music, People, Day, Melancholy)

"But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: First)

"Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess."
- Stephan Jenkins
"Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Life, Books)

"I find pleasure in things that are simple."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Pleasure)

"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: Home)