I've always gotten along with guys better.

We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot.

I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls.

People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

So I started home schooling. I was a little freaked out about that, because I' m such a social person, involved in everything. It was awesome. I loved it and I loved being home.

I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

God is a hero.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

I'm a plant eater.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

It's very rare that I get really upset about something my assistants have done.

There is no cross big or small in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

I think therefore I am.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

I can tell my grandkids that I played with Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and Flacco will definitely be added to that list.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.