Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.

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.

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