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.

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

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

There's a new kind of woman out there…She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how.

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.