Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money.".

The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audie….

Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend w….

How do you make yourself not like someone?.

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal..

I love having other people sing my songs..

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on it….

Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Float in the blue skies ravishing. Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring That's sweet, albeit fleeting. Float ….

You can't always say what you'd like to say..

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes f….

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens..

To invent is to discern, to choose..

There's so many things that we could do..

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first..

The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even play….

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well..

Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fan….

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a numb….

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different..

There are some things that can't be measured..