Andy Mineo Quotes
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Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.
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I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.
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I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.
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I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.
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I had a lot of friends be kind of standoffish after I became a Christian.
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I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.
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My biggest enemy is typically me.
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Being a Christian and seeing that white evangelical Christians were primarily the people who put guys like Donald Trump into office made my entire world explode.
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It's really tough to be an active member of your church when you travel so much, but that's the stuff that keeps you going.
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I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.
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It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.
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A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.
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I don't really speak for anybody else's music, and I don't think I should, but I think the reason why people enjoy my music is because there's a level of honesty and transparency that people can connect and relate to.
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I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.
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Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.
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For some reason, we have completely separated Christians who are rappers, and we have separated, I guess, regular rappers. I feel that we should be able to mingle, enjoy each other's company, and trade ideas.
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I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.
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You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'
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I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.
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I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in - I started realizing a lot of them just weren't the people I thought they were.
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I hope people listen to the music. Don't write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it's been labeled that way, because if I'm honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.
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A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.
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Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.
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Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.