If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

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.

Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

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 yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

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.