Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

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

If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is what I'm struggling with,' and then pray and talk about it, then that's an incredible thing.