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

Cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?”

I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is

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.

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.

It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

It’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.

This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?

You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.