The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

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

When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.

When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.