“I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.”

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

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

I ached for red silk romance, and carry me away passion, and I ached for it with nobody else but him. He was a breed of charming I couldn’t resist.

The right hands will erase your aches for love builds more than it breaks.

My heart aches in corners I did not know existed.

Starry nights calm my thoughts and whims, but it makes me ache for all the things that could have been.

She was aching to reach the stars, to feel the magic within her heart.

All of this heartache is a war story.