“I try to live [my faith] rather than talk about it because there are enough secondhand-car salesmen for God. But I cannot escape my conviction that God is interested in the progress of mankind, individually and collectively.”

"I have a hard time getting my head around the cultural terms. I've never seen why there should be a separation. Much of my life, I've been asked, 'Why doesn't your music proclaim Christ?' I say it does! Does nature scream the name of Christ? Creation has its own proclamation within the majesty of it. I'd like to think our music has the same qualities to it. I always get shifty with that [label,] like there were [supposed to be] compartments in your life. When I read Scripture, there are no compartments to your life."