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...
funny-things wells persons
Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
kings two differences
Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
song talking ideas
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.
mean opposites feet
Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.
our-world today problem
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.
shining sunrise tears
There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.
heart sunset phones
Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.
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.