On tour I feel like it's always so go go...you're always just taking in and storing information and feelings and things. So for me I need time off to let all those things come out and settle.

Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

You can't start a fire in the pouring rain.

Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.

If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.

For me I want to know everything that goes on with my business but at the end of the day I just want to live, experience, be inspired and create music.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Go see 'Hidden Figures, ' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

The way we do small things determines the way we do EVERYTHING

I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.