I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.
The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.
I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.
Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.
Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.
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