I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

Lead me to the cross Where Your love poured out Bring me to my knees Lord I lay me down Rid me of myself I belong to You Lead me, lead me to the cross.

You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.

I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

Repentance is a 180 degree turn, whereas Reformation is only a 90 degree turn.

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.

Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.