It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.

Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.