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

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Stephan Jenkins
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 27
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Oakland
California
Stephan Douglas Jenkins
Institutional
Situations
Situation
Trying
People
Fixer
Fixers
Misfits
Gravitate

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I find pleasure in things that are simple.
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Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.
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I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
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I like surfing I bring a surfboard with me on tour.
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Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
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Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.
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That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
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I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.
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I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.
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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.
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Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
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