“I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.”

Port Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.”

And show up in a place I never thought I’d ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I’d written so far away. To me, that’s so surreal.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast.

Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise.

I’m a studio guy. That’s really what I love the most.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

But costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars.

I’d probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it

I live alone in a house,

He: “Whale you be my valentine?” She: “Dolphinitely.

When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything

Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect.

When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, “a pirate.”

I’m scared to death that I’ll never be afraid

I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.

I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Knowin’ all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein’ a good whittler.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.