The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

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.

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

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

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

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.