Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.

I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.

Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.

For me, when I think about Christ, I think about this iconoclastic man who lived and died for the broken. And the paramount underdog, which is basically turning the world on it’s head. Blessed are the poor and blessed are the hungry, blessed are the broken, all these things that feel very backwards in our fame, power, beauty, riches hungry world. That’s who Christ is to me.

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.