You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
Stephan Jenkins's quotes
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.
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
Architecture is politics.
Mitchell Kapor
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.
When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.
Jim Otto
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.
Gennifer Flowers
If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
George Crook
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.
James Buchan
I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.
When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting.