The shadow proves the sunshine.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

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

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.

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