DG: Third Eye Blind's music has undertones of rap and hip hop music in the past, can any rap or hip hop type songs and any future Third Eye Blind albums, or even on this one?
SJ: I think you can see them as in influence on everything we do, but not necessarily directly. We have a hip hop kind of a feeling in the band, in the same way say.... I don't know-- Rage against the machine does.
DG: Do you have a working title for the album right now?
SJ: I have one but I'm not sure if I can tell you. The working title that we have for the album right now is called " The Red Summer Sun."
DG: What's the best part about being in the studio and that whole atmosphere?
SJ: It's when we get creative. It's about being creative.
DG: Obviously, your songs are written about real people and real experiences. When you perform them every single night live for more than a year, does it take away from the experiences and the connection with the people at all?
SJ: No, because the original intent doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what it means to me. It matters what it means to you. I love seeing people get different meaning out of it. They always write me letters and tell me what the song meant. I totally enjoy that, its something to share. That's why you make it.
And there's fan mail. I can't even begin to answer all the fan mail but with "Jumper" there are a lot of people who considered suicide or have had other hurtful things happen to them. They've found a friend in that song. People have that sense of angst in "God Of Wine."
DG: What do you and the band want your fans to get out of your music?
SJ: I always use records as this thing for me to speak my life in some way. Its like a canon piece for the summer. Its like a soundtrack for a time that I was going through. I see people doing that and it's the most you could ever hope for. I want people to get a sense of joy out of the music that we make. That is what we all go through. A perspective that you can feel good about and at the concerts I want people to come out of their shells a little bit. I want them to have like a great big romping time, where they feel like they can do that.
I get blown away because the lyrics are so personal, and when people sing them they have made them they're own. Its that they are not mine anymore. They sing them with their own meanings, their own symbols. People say I'm one of those people who really looks at the audience. I'm not really standing up there to be looked at, I'm really looking at people. I'm sort of fascinated by the way that people make Third Eye Blind part of their lives. [The fans] have sort of made this culture out of the band. Third Eye Blind is instead of it being me, its something that I almost take part in. When we're on tour, the shows are something that WE participate in together.
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