I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.

I am not afraid of the dark. And you shouldn't be either.

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.