The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

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

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.