Occupation: Singer Birth: May 10, 1960
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different language….
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment..
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a….
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong..
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud..
Music can change the world because it can change people..
We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will..
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater..
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life..
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery….
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger ….
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public he….
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them..
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some ar….
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard ….
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building..
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it..
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief..
Laughter is eternity if joy is real..
I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head..