Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.