I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.

I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

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

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

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

I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.