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.

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.

Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

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

There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.