You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.