Yeah. It’s funny, but a song like "Losing a Whole Year"…that song was written during my first rehearsal with Third Eye Blind. Those lyrics could have been about a relationship I had when I was 19. It fit perfectly, right down to the Prozac (laughs). I think that’s why people can relate to our songs.
No, I think the songs are more about a cathartic release than about being depressed. We don’t try to tell people how to hear our music. If they see things that way, then they see them that way. We can’t change that. My uncle, for example, is an Episcopalian priest, and he’s one of our biggest fans. He sees a real message of hope in our lyrics.
Yeah, I do, actually. My brother and I designed our official Web page. My brother’s really into it. I’m a fledgling computer nerd, I guess (laughs). Trying to be, at least. I’m always impressed because, every time I check those pages out, there seem to be one or two more. I think there’s about 10 now. It’s pretty funny, because the stuff we put on our Web site seems to end up on those fan sites pretty quickly (laughs). We’re totally flattered by the fact that people want to create Web pages about us, actually. It’s often young people, too, which is encouraging to see.
Um, well, Stephan came up with the name. It doesn’t have any specific meaning. It kind of mirrors some of the paradoxes you might find in Stephan’s lyrics. It’s not any kind of mission statement. It’s just an idea that represents the way that some of Stephan’s lyrics work. It’s not really a serious name. Sometimes when we get asked that, we just say, "It doesn’t mean anything" (laughs). It just is. It’s not important, really.
