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" Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room. "

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" I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message. "

Mat Kearney

Music

God

Life

" I'm a '90s music kid. "

Mat Kearney

Kid

Music

" Choosing an acoustic guitar for a live setting can be different from picking out one for recording. One doesn't always work for the other. The sonic properties can be vastly different. "

" Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me. "

Mat Kearney

Always

Been

" I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd. "

" When I started forming my own taste, there was a period in high school when I listened to only rap and hip-hop, like A Tribe Called Quest. "

" 'City Of Black And White' was me trying to do something more mature, more adult contemporary. "

" I was an English major, and I always wrote poems. "

" Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to. "

" There's this song called 'Brad Chester,' which is like the depths of my family. It comes from a very personal place. "

" From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career. "

" All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing. "

" Paul Simon is the king! "

" When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major. "

" I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from. "

" Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room. "

" I think the way I love talking about my faith is through my story because I think that's all we have to work with sometimes. I think it's the most moving way to share your story, too - is what you know, what you've seen and heard and tasted and felt. "

" I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather. "

" I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music. "

" When we tour, there's always this unique quality to every town you visit... Touring, you get a sense of a collective identity for different cities. That's one of the things I love about my job. "

" I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile. "

" God found me when I was at my lowest point. That was the first time in my life when I really felt like I understood who Jesus was - it was more than just knowing about Him: I felt like He met me in that time and place. "

Mat Kearney

Time

My Life

" When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images. "

" I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.' "

" There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season. "

Mat Kearney

School

Season

" 'Nothing Left to Lose' was an album that I wrote in my bedroom, and you don't know who is listening or who cares. "

" I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting. "

" Golf was big in my family. "

" When 'Young Love' came out, I was really excited, and it has been really special. "

" When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment. "