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Stephan Jenkins
American
Musician
About the author
You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
It's important to face down your demons.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#World
#Music
Sex is funny and love is serious.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Love
#Funny
#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,
American
Musician
#World
#First
#Sense
#Music
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#State
When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Talk
#Girls
It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Sense
#Music
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Music
#Value
#Literature
#Moments
So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Being
#Sound
I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
I've spent several years now with my head down.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Now
#Years
I've always identified with the misfits.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#People
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#People
I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#People
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#School
#Approval
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Eye
#Mind
#Beginning
#Blind
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#People
#Day
#Music
#Melancholy
But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#First
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Life
#Books
I find pleasure in things that are simple.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Pleasure
I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
Stephan Jenkins,
American
Musician
#Home