I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which… — Jon Foreman Character Copy Share Image
I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've… — Jon Foreman Ability 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… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by… — Jon Foreman Ability 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 Beauty 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
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
I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Calling has this weight that somehow we think that your calling is fixed. That your calling is this line that you’ve finally… — 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 Complexes 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… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern… — Jon Foreman Biggest problem 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
The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle,… — Jon Foreman Beautiful 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
Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget… — 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… — Jon Foreman Friendship Copy Share Image
If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is… — Jon Foreman Couple 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 Always thinking Copy Share Image
I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to… — Jon Foreman Children 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 Art Copy Share Image