No doubt hoping to inject a bit of (semi-charmed) life into his nascent comeback album on Glenn Ballard's newly formed Java label, bleached and faded '80's rocker Billy Idol recently reached out to Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind. "Billy called me up and asked me if I would write him some songs and maybe rpoduce something, " says Jenkins, who agreed to "help him out." Jenkins stresses the arrangement is informal. "Whatever we record might end up coming out four years from now, or it could be the first single on the record. I don't know at this point."

September 11, 1998 Entertainment Weekly