Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a gift. Like I've said, felt belief is not necessarily something that you choose to have or not to have. But it is a gift that you can open yourself to receive.

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.

I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

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