The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.
To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That’s how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn’t it? “I am that I am.” God is. Whatever is, that is God.
I’m not one to call out an individual and say “I don’t think that is honest.” Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?
The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.
Art is the body’s pronunciation of the soul.
Faith comes from listening to the right stories.
Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that’s not the whole story.
The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.
The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
I don’t want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.
I think I’m just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That’s what I hear in artist’s that I like.
I think everybody is different. We are trying to be ourselves, and other people are trying to be themselves. We all share commonalities with each other, but all of us have different thumbprints. We all have our own unique things.
You don’t have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.
If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.
It’s hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it’s safer to kind of fit into a box.
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.
To me genres were always an imaginary things, they’re just marketing channels.
To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between “secular” and “Christian” music is simply a marketing channel.
One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people’s hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God.