Stephan Jenkins famous quotes

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Rocks #World #Firsts

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Airplane #Light #Jumping

Sex is funny and love is serious.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Sex #Love Is #Serious

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#People #Challenges #Everyday

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

#Believe #Needs #Balls

I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Surfing

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Emotional #States #Rhythm

I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Song #Past #People

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Song #Years #Lasts

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Song #Long #Jam

I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Real #Thinking #Intuition

You just gotta go after things you like.
-- Stephan Jenkins

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits
-- Stephan Jenkins

#People #Trying #Misfits

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes
-- Stephan Jenkins

#World #Way #Music Is

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Hard Times #Moments

I play video games, dude!
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Play #Games #Video

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#School #Appreciate #Joining

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Song #Powerful #Reality

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

#Writing #Ties #Together

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

#Mind #Encounters #Literature

I've always identified with the misfits
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Misfits

I've spent several years now with my head down
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Years

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Book #Impact #Made

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Hard Times #Facts #Life Is

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Beautiful #Song #Writing

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Sunset #Bullshit #World

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

#Real #People #Looks

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Insecurity #Share #Hopes And Fears

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

#Eye #Thinking #People

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles
-- Stephan Jenkins

#People #Castles

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Girl #Real #Shagging

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Castles #Kingdoms

It's important to face down your demons.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Important #Faces #Demon

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#People #Pulse #Shows

I find pleasure in things that are simple.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Simple #Pleasure

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Stars #Rocks #Rock Star

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Luxury #Gout #Cases

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
-- Stephan Jenkins

#Home #Motorcycle #Tanks