What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
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.
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
The less you know, the more you believe.
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.