I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.