God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate.

I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a lot of areas of life and say, "Man, listen, regardless of what kind of backlash I'm going to get, I need to stand for what I believe in."

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.