It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.
Jon ForemanExperience 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.
Jon ForemanI try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.
Jon ForemanI've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.
Jon ForemanI think that weโre a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that weโre going to be lifeless food for worms in a coffin someday. But at the same time, I feel like knowing that youโre going to die can be an incredibly rewarding, powerful knowledge. It inspires us to live in ways that we wouldnโt if we were ignorant. I feel like that has inspired me to care about every breath. For me itโs not a morbid curiosity, itโs just wanting to make sure that every moment I have here on the Earth while I am breathing is accounted for.
Jon Foreman