I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

I look around and I know there's a lot in the world that I want to see changed - and I want to be a part of something bigger than myself. I want to see things change, in myself as much as in the world around me.

There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.

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

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.

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