If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

I need music like I need water.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.