The shadow proves the sunshine.

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

I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

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.

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed