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...
song mean littles
The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.
beautiful song block
Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.
song pain way
Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.
song writing soil
Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.
dog mean decision
Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.
news stories way
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.
truth-will-set-you-free scary hell
The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.
simplicity great-things
It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.
thinking worth-it
Think deeply about life, it's worth it!
answers dangerous
The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.
jesus differences giving
Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.
song space pockets
For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.
hands surfing hurricanes
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.
lying wrestling dark
I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.