Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an option. You’re not dealing with a fact like one plus one equals two—I’m gonna choose to believe that. It’s kind of one of those things where you are choosing to believe that someone loves you. That is always going to be your choice. So for me, I think that’s what makes the faith that I have volatile and explosive and dangerous and troubling. That’s what most of my songs are about.

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

For me, when I think about Christ, I think about this iconoclastic man who lived and died for the broken. And the paramount underdog, which is basically turning the world on it’s head. Blessed are the poor and blessed are the hungry, blessed are the broken, all these things that feel very backwards in our fame, power, beauty, riches hungry world. That’s who Christ is to me.

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