I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.