I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

I think everybody is different. We are trying to be ourselves, and other people are trying to be themselves. We all share commonalities with each other, but all of us have different thumbprints. We all have our own unique things.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.