I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.

Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.