Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

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.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.

I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.

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