I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing..

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs t….

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that..

What is not possible is not to choose..

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets..

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 ….

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..

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

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….