Jon Foreman
Jon Foreman
Jonathan Mark Foremanis the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and his brother Tim Foreman on bass guitar...
love faith-hope-and-charity and-love
Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.
stars pain home
Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.
song ideas world
I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
song writing cameras
I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
jobs one-day desks
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
home sunset sleep
My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.
morning wife sunrise
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 times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.
song writing records
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.
song writing thinking
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 you're writing for the good of the song.
sunset thinking sunrise
I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.
song light years
Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.
mouths reluctant
I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.
song pain writing
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 thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.
teaching voice desert
Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.