I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.

I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

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.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

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.