Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.

I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.