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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
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I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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I'm never nervous.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.