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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.

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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
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San Bernardino County
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Jonathan Mark Foreman
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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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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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You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.
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If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
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I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in that to believe something you have to actively doubt the opposite. And from my perspective, that's the deep end. You're dealing with the unknown you're dealing with mystery.
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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.
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Nothing stays together without a fight.
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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.
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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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There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to Flamenco Sketches off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.
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As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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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.
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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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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.
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