A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

I don't even call myself a Christian.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

You need to be able to confide in people.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is... zero.

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.