There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages
It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.
A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Sometimes you win by losing.
Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
