Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

It's depressing a little when you don't see outside the tour bus and underground in a stadium. If you go outside near the venue there are lots of fans everywhere so you can't just have a minute to enjoy the sunshine alone and think.

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.

Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the United States and have something to say about the United States and my perspective and my lens is going to affect my judgment on everything" and that's the way a Christian should be. I'm going to invade culture and my lens and perspective is going to influence culture just as much as anyone else's.

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.