I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Education must precede motivation.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

I think the terrorism watch list in the United States went over a million people some years ago.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.