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.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.