Stephan Jenkins
Stephan Jenkins
Stephan Douglas Jenkins, is an American musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Third Eye Blind. Under Jenkins's leadership, Third Eye Blind has sold over 12 million copies worldwide of five albums: Third Eye Blind, Blue, Out of the Vein, Ursa Major, and Dopamine. Jenkins wrote or co-wrote all of the band's most notable hits, including "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", "How's It Going to Be", "Losing a Whole Year", "Graduate", "Deep Inside of You", and "Never Let...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth27 September 1964
CityIndio, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Well, we get to play in front of people who go out and spend their money on tickets, and I'm completely overwhelmed by that.
Lately, I've felt this return to joy, and that makes other people easy around me.
I love people who look like they have a chip on their shoulders, like Alicia Keys.
I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
I was not someone who participated in other people's castles
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.
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
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.
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.
Every celebrity relationship where the engagement is announced and talked about, you know these things are just doomed.
I have all this technology-you know, I built this really cool recording studio in San Francisco-but when I write, it's with an acoustic guitar and a yellow notepad. I keep it very simple.
Well, I would sit on the bed with my guitar, write these really personal songs, and then take them around the world.
We're going to play really long tonight. They're gonna have to drag us off the stage tonight.