Top 35 Stephan Jenkins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.”

— Stephan Jenkins

2. “It’s important to face down your demons.”

— Stephan Jenkins

3. “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

4. “What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.”

— Stephan Jenkins

5. “You make kingdoms and castles on your own.”

— Stephan Jenkins

6. “When you’re just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don’t.”

— Stephan Jenkins

7. “I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.”

— Stephan Jenkins

8. “I like surfing; I bring a surfboard with me on tour.”

— Stephan Jenkins

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9. “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

10. “Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.”

— Stephan Jenkins

11. “I find pleasure in things that are simple.”

— Stephan Jenkins

12. “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

13. “I like people who have a pulse and aren’t afraid to show it.”

— Stephan Jenkins

14. “My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.”

— Stephan Jenkins

15. “I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.”

— Stephan Jenkins

16. “There’s usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.”

— Stephan Jenkins

17. “I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.”

— Stephan Jenkins

18. “I don’t really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.”

— Stephan Jenkins

19. “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

20. “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

21. “Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.”

— Stephan Jenkins

22. “Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I’m going to get a case of Gout.”

— Stephan Jenkins

23. “That’s what drew me to rock music in the first place – that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.”

— Stephan Jenkins

24. “You probably became a musicians because you’re into it so stay that way. Don’t believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don’t.”

— Stephan Jenkins

25. “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

26. “I’ve spent several years now with my head down.”

— Stephan Jenkins

27. “I’ve always identified with the misfits.”

— Stephan Jenkins

28. “I play video games, dude!”

— Stephan Jenkins

29. “But I’m not worried about seeking out the approval of others – that high school thing of joining the club.”

— Stephan Jenkins

30. “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

31. “I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.”

— Stephan Jenkins

32. “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

33. “I was not someone who participated in other people’s castles.”

— Stephan Jenkins

34. “You just gotta go after things you like.”

— Stephan Jenkins

35. “It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.”

— Stephan Jenkins