The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

Words are less important to me than deeds.

Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.