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.

Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

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.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

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.

I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an option. You’re not dealing with a fact like one plus one equals two—I’m gonna choose to believe that. It’s kind of one of those things where you are choosing to believe that someone loves you. That is always going to be your choice. So for me, I think that’s what makes the faith that I have volatile and explosive and dangerous and troubling. That’s what most of my songs are about.

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