Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.