Matt Quotes

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.

Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.

I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.

It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.

Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

When you realize that the baby's healthy and born, it's a release and you're so happy.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.