I used to collect charms and bracelets.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved.

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.

You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!

It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.

God’s love looks for those who feel unlovely, desiring to make them beautiful again.

But I'll say this: I've never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I've never been more sure of the path I've chosen.

I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.

Music is about bringing light to others.

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.