As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“There’s a certain amount of humility that is attached to wonder, and a certain amount of pride attached to knowledge and I… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up,… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself -… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
