Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.