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I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.

I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

I'm about to sing the song for the future.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.