I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.