Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.

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

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet.

For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.

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.