I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.