“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

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I wouldn’t just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.

It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music.

I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.