Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

It was always going to be a blues, soul, and rock-'n'-roll thing, because those are our ingredients. That's where we come from, and that's how we write. I think it has just become larger. We've just been able to use our imaginations so much more.

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

We're not in people's faces, but I guess we're kind of in people's ears.