Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
I’ve been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
I’ve always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith.
I’ve always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
I’m unqualified to do anything other than music.
I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.
I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I’d rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they’re not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town – hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.
The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.
Your skin’s so fair its not fair.
In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.
Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.
I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.
Well, I’ve been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it’s completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that’s better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
I only listen to my own music when I’m playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don’t put it on recreationally.