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

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that we’re going to be lifeless food for worms in a coffin someday. But at the same time, I feel like knowing that you’re going to die can be an incredibly rewarding, powerful knowledge. It inspires us to live in ways that we wouldn’t if we were ignorant. I feel like that has inspired me to care about every breath. For me it’s not a morbid curiosity, it’s just wanting to make sure that every moment I have here on the Earth while I am breathing is accounted for.

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

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.

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