Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.

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

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

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.

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.

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.