There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

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.

My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.

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.