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

I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?

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

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

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