For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.