If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it as a shield. I'm guilty of it too. I think spiritual words can do one or the other. Because when I hear people say, in a religion setting, 'Glory,' 'Praise the Lord,' 'Hallelujah,' but it doesn't mean anything, those are actually words that distance us from God, ironically enough.

I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.