"No. Not one experience. It's been a million little epiphanies." [Third Eye Blind frontman STEPHAN JENKINS when asked if any experience in the past year changed his life. (Source: Interview magazine)]
"I like it just to get in there and sort of, ya' know, all the videos get in and they have sex with each other and it's just one big sweaty pile of music video footage. This is my hope for the future of video which is so important. And I like clichés. I like crap... I love crap... all the crap... more crap... just play it. Yes... endlessly. That's what I think." [quote from MTV's Video Clichés special program]
"There is lots of Bullshit, and sometimes bullshit comes with a smiling face."
"I don't wanna be a fucking target demographic"
"Cops started to show up in our dressing room 'cause they thought we were all a bunch of drug addicts. And we are a bunch of drug addicts but they're never gonna find our shit."
"We've been on the road for a long time now, and we've found that touring is a lot like college. There's always some dumb fuck like a professor or TA that you have to put up with shit from, but in the end, people like you inspire us and make it all worthwhile."
"I'll tell you what, some places have just totally stomped on us and made us feel like shit. But you guys aren't stomping on me, you're KICKING MY ASS! State College is one of our favorite places to play, because you guys never give us shit."
"Hey, let me tell you something about crowd surfing. Crowd surfing's for girls! So next time you see some lard ass pig trying to get up there and get attention, drop him. Drop him on his ass!"
"We have 3 more weeks on this tour, and then we're going to hibernate for the winter and make another album. We have some of the songs written already, and I figured that since we have our groovy thing going on out here we might as well play it for you. We might totally fuck it up, cause it's brand new, but we're among friends, right? It's called Gorgeous."
"That is me, unsheathed and open for judgment."
"The great thing about playing live is that I have no fear at all"
"DIY"
"We've been playing music all our lives."
"We work very hard not to have a style."
"We're going around,living life. The hooks are coming right now. There is a gestation proces. It's the discipline to keep returning to things in a spontaneous way. That's what rock music is- it's about spontaneity."
"I tend to write four pages of lyrics per song. Then I have to condense it and figure out what the song is about."
"I don't advocate drug use. I don't advocate anything. People should think for themselves, but they should definitely think."
"I want this record to intoxicate people."
"When we play 'GOOD FOR YOU' we're fucking playing 'GOOD FOR YOU' for real. We don't cover our songs. I'd like to be less self-conscious."
"We live on the road."
"I'm a big advocate of the Surf Rider foundation."
"The main idea of the song [Motorcycle Driveby] is that sometimes when you're really lonely, you really feel alive and you feel like you know who you are."
"Life is a blur. We're having a ball. Our music is inspired by the lives we lead and the lives we see."
"None of us are married. Iwould like to be someday...it's plenty to think of. She's out there."
"WE HAVE CONFIRMED FAITH THAT 3EB FANS ARE THE MOST KICK@#$ PEOPLE ON EARTH.
WALK LIKE KINGS, ALL OF YOU."
"There's nothing illegal about fellatio!!"
"This life we lead, it's always a mixed metaphor:and the song 'I Want You' says, 'There will be no regrets when the worms come. That song is the only cheerful song on the record--and even that one is like, 'bones weeping in the grave.'"
"fuck the government"
"For me music is exalting and intoxicating."
"We didn't know that so many people wanted to see us."
"We won the big penis." [speech at Bammies]
"This song came a a big surprise to us--we've said this before--we didn't think it was gonna get played on the radio at all. Cause it's a dirt little song about having sex! And taking drugs! I guess it just goes to show that you're all a bunch of dirty little perverts." "it [SCL] was written about a whole bunch of things going on at the same time. i guess it's mainly a song about the condition of just wanting something else instead of, uh, instead of being able to as it were, dig, what you have right in front of you."
" The personal connection that we have made with the fans has been the most profound thing that has happened to me this year."
"Last week we looked at the, uh, calendar, and our little band called Third Eye Blind has been on tour now for 43 weeks!... A lot of wierd shit happens. Let me tell you guys something, for real: what we are doing now--right now, like, TONIGHT--we have never had more fun in our whole FUCKING lives."
This is a song [Motorcycle driveby] about a girl who dumped me. SHE dumps ME on my ass and I write a song about her. Life is cruel and unfair my friends and that is FACT. But at least we're all here to share it together."
[After being asked if they were single]"no we're all married and we have large families and we're Amish. we don't have a tour bus, we have one of those wagons and uh, we have no zippers, all buttons. and what i wanna tell ya is that ya know, that kind of lifestyle, my eleven kids, makes being on the road really complicated b/c uh, i've got wandering eyes and i'm really horny. (then he goes on to say)-"no come on, we're all single. of course, young kids like us. we're all single as Backstreet Boys."
"i love it when girls call each other chicks because then i feel like i'm living in a really liberated environment."
"i like to work with my hands. i like to use those biore clear pore treatments cus that's really entertaining. the first time i yanked one of those things off it was just like, it was uh, it was deep baby"
(a listener asked if they live in one big house, their own apartment or with their parents)-"we live in a tepee actually in san francisco golden gate park and um, it's just uh, it's not very tidy in there and um, there's a real shortage of buffalo meat so uh, it's alot easier to be on the road because we have this big, big, uh, tour bus and then we can run through the fields and forests of pennsylvania killing small animals an, an eating em"
(when people hear third eye blind what's the first thing you want them to think?)-"uh, sense of bliss. we make songs about people who are flawed and maybe uh, uh, messed up in certain ways but they're still redemeable and still beautiful in some way. i think that's why people have made the connection they have to us. besides the fact that we're just a bunch of funny bastards"
"i've never done a whole radio interview sitting on the floor, have you brad?...YES!"
[when asked if they made an impression on U2 or the Rolling Stones] "Yeah. I didn't want to just be another guy opening for them. So, I told him I lost my virginity when I was 18 in the back seat of a 1968 Volkswagon Bus while listening to U2's War album. Bono was fucking impressed."
You know, somebody told me that this place [Harborlights, Boston, MA] was just a great place, you know. You got the harbor, you got the city. And, uh, I woke up very early this morning at about 2:30 in the afternoon and...I was all cranky -- just not my time of day. And then...we show up here, and...feel the breeze, and...This is my favorite time of the day... it's my favorite time of year...it's my favorite time of LIFE. You guys show up and suddenly we feel great. So I guess what we're trying to say is...we're fucking glad to be here! Thanks for having us. This is the most depressing song we know how to play, um...but, it's, uh -- it makes us feel good to, uh...play it. This is a song called "Jumper."
[Hillarious quote!=) From the Carson Daly show on MTV]"I worked as a -- I worked as a scuba diver, um, counting, uh -- my job was ot go out at night with other divers and, uh, catch, uh, lobsters and turn them over and check out their...genitalia.[Carson says "Really... That was an actual occupation that you did?"] I was, uh, sexing lobster nuts."
" Basically touring for a year is like being on a sit and spin and we become a little bit dizzy, a little bit drunk on that. Yes, I suppose so, but we're still all about playing music and reaching people through music. I think it's something we feel blessed to be able to do.We're very greatful for it and we wanna keep it growing. [Kevin pipes in "touring is not a merry go round, let me just tell you that."] It's not a merry go round, It's a sit and spin"
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(when people hear third eye blind what's the first thing you want them to think?)-"uh, sense of bliss. we make songs about people who are flawed and maybe uh, uh, messed up in certain ways but they're still redemeable and still beautiful in some way. i think that's why people have made the connection they have to us. besides the fact that we're just a bunch of funny bastards"
"i've never done a whole radio interview sitting on the floor, have you brad?...YES!"
[when asked if they made an impression on U2 or the Rolling Stones] "Yeah. I didn't want to just be another guy opening for them. So, I told him I lost my virginity when I was 18 in the back seat of a 1968 Volkswagon Bus while listening to U2's War album. Bono was fucking impressed."
You know, somebody told me that this place [Harborlights, Boston, MA] was just a great place, you know. You got the harbor, you got the city. And, uh, I woke up very early this morning at about 2:30 in the afternoon and...I was all cranky -- just not my time of day. And then...we show up here, and...feel the breeze, and...This is my favorite time of the day... it's my favorite time of year...it's my favorite time of LIFE. You guys show up and suddenly we feel great. So I guess what we're trying to say is...we're fucking glad to be here! Thanks for having us. This is the most depressing song we know how to play, um...but, it's, uh -- it makes us feel good to, uh...play it. This is a song called "Jumper."
[Hillarious quote!=) From the Carson Daly show on MTV]"I worked as a -- I worked as a scuba diver, um, counting, uh -- my job was ot go out at night with other divers and, uh, catch, uh, lobsters and turn them over and check out their...genitalia.[Carson says "Really... That was an actual occupation that you did?"] I was, uh, sexing lobster nuts."
" Basically touring for a year is like being on a sit and spin and we become a little bit dizzy, a little bit drunk on that. Yes, I suppose so, but we're still all about playing music and reaching people through music. I think it's something we feel blessed to be able to do.We're very greatful for it and we wanna keep it growing. [Kevin pipes in "touring is not a merry go round, let me just tell you that."] It's not a merry go round, It's a sit and spin"
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[when asked if they made an impression on U2 or the Rolling Stones] "Yeah. I didn't want to just be another guy opening for them. So, I told him I lost my virginity when I was 18 in the back seat of a 1968 Volkswagon Bus while listening to U2's War album. Bono was fucking impressed."
You know, somebody told me that this place [Harborlights, Boston, MA] was just a great place, you know. You got the harbor, you got the city. And, uh, I woke up very early this morning at about 2:30 in the afternoon and...I was all cranky -- just not my time of day. And then...we show up here, and...feel the breeze, and...This is my favorite time of the day... it's my favorite time of year...it's my favorite time of LIFE. You guys show up and suddenly we feel great. So I guess what we're trying to say is...we're fucking glad to be here! Thanks for having us. This is the most depressing song we know how to play, um...but, it's, uh -- it makes us feel good to, uh...play it. This is a song called "Jumper."
[Hillarious quote!=) From the Carson Daly show on MTV]"I worked as a -- I worked as a scuba diver, um, counting, uh -- my job was ot go out at night with other divers and, uh, catch, uh, lobsters and turn them over and check out their...genitalia.[Carson says "Really... That was an actual occupation that you did?"] I was, uh, sexing lobster nuts."
" Basically touring for a year is like being on a sit and spin and we become a little bit dizzy, a little bit drunk on that. Yes, I suppose so, but we're still all about playing music and reaching people through music. I think it's something we feel blessed to be able to do.We're very greatful for it and we wanna keep it growing. [Kevin pipes in "touring is not a merry go round, let me just tell you that."] It's not a merry go round, It's a sit and spin"
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" Basically touring for a year is like being on a sit and spin and we become a little bit dizzy, a little bit drunk on that. Yes, I suppose so, but we're still all about playing music and reaching people through music. I think it's something we feel blessed to be able to do.We're very greatful for it and we wanna keep it growing. [Kevin pipes in "touring is not a merry go round, let me just tell you that."] It's not a merry go round, It's a sit and spin"
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