If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BONOYou don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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