I rather like the idea of defying death..

I love Kelly Clarkson..

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished..

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Compan….

Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I have a lot to say and feel. I want to p….

I love. I have loved. I will love..

Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a s….

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song..

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was..

There is no one else - there's never been anyone else but you. You're it Maddie..

It's how you live that really counts.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense..

I think it's good to have a balance. Everything I write about, it's not something I necessarily might have went through, there's songs where I might ….

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to….

What are days for? Days are where we live..

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk so….

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can..

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Fa….

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying f….

A lot of people put out albums with sort of crappy songs and a couple of singles because they know no one's going to listen to it anyway. We very muc….

Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke….