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...
powerful believe different
If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.
fighting water looks
I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.
pain substitutes spite
Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
dying looks body
My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.
decision debt obedience
I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.
song writing guitar
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.
silent reason
There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.
world anything-worth-doing this-world
Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
fighting together
Nothing stays together without a fight.
heart break break-your-heart
If it doesn't break your heart it isn't love
song sex safety
I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.
thinking track forever
Calling has this weight that somehow we think that your calling is fixed. That your calling is this line that you’ve finally found and now you're on that track and that’s what you’re gonna do forever and maybe that's the case. But I feel like calling has much more to to do with the moment that you’re in.
debt love-one-another outstanding
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
daughter morning thinking
For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.