The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.