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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

Jon Foreman

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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
Pants
Happiness
Everyone
Feel
Feels
Like
Peeing
Warmth

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I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.
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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.
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I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.
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I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
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What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.
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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.
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I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.
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Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.
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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.
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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.
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Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.
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Nothing stays together without a fight.
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I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.
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It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.
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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
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If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
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