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

The shadow proves the sunshine.

Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.

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.

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.