I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

Saige, Mother is . . .” I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. “Mother is dead.

You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something