Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love. Jon Foreman More Quotes by Jon Foreman More Quotes From Jon Foreman I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet. Jon Foreman writing song thinking 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. Jon Foreman pain stars home Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before. Jon Foreman funny-things wells persons 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. Jon Foreman pain home song Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own. Jon Foreman music-is song facts 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. Jon Foreman writing song thinking 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 about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about. Jon Foreman song talking ideas 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. Jon Foreman different writing song 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. Jon Foreman sound writing song 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. Jon Foreman dark wrestling lying Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together? Jon Foreman pulling gravity together The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there. Jon Foreman truth-will-set-you-free hell scary I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space. Jon Foreman divorce war thinking I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project. Jon Foreman inspiration song thinking Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. Jon Foreman reading book ideas 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. Jon Foreman block song beautiful 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. Jon Foreman littles song mean 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. Jon Foreman pain song way 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. Jon Foreman light song years 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. Jon Foreman sunrise wife morning
