From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.