It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

There's tons of external and internal pressures that we deal with but live for God and you'll be alright.

I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

You must first dream, without worrying about how you will fulfill the dreams. There is a divine power that will attract the needed resources for the fulfillment of your dreams.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.