“I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.”

I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.

Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”

If we pick recognition over influence we’ll be known for all the wrong stuff.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure’s off; just go love everybody without agenda.

That’s all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I’m just respecting the Groom’s pick.

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.

Do what lasts, get around to everything else.

When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

I’m used to having money and the stuff I do, but it’s more of how I’m doing it now. I walk outside and people know me, and I really get paid for shows.

And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.

Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.