A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.