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

The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

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.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.