Making a record really just comes down to making a bunch of decisions.  Everything from the big questions like “what do I want to say with this album?” to “what do I want it to sound like?” to “can I get more of that 12th electric guitar in the mix?” eventually comes down to decisions.  Eighths on the hi-hat or sixteenths?  Acoustic guitar or banjo?  Is it too inappropriate to rhyme “Pat Robertson” with the word “lesbian”?  So many decisions. I imagi...

Atheism is very in vogue right now.  This is kind of wild to me.  Being somewhat of a chronic doubter myself sometimes, I can understand agnosticism, but to me, straight up atheism seems like a pretty depressing faith choice.  Call me old fashioned. It’s cool to be the tortured artist who doesn’t believe in anything but her work.  But the problem is, you really can’t escape faith.  You have to believe in something.  To say that you believe in nothing is a self-contradicting statem...

Imagine if someone could get every person on earth to combine his or her efforts to do something spectacular together.  There are 6 billion of us on this planet.  Imagine what we could do if every single one of us dedicated our entire lives towards one common purpose.  Now imagine if you had ten thousand worlds like ours, and every person on every planet decided to join this singular purpose. Try to imagine the scope of a mission like that.  It seems impossible to imagine trillions of ind...

I sometimes wish that I could write different types of songs.  You know, songs that have the words like “baby” or “booty” in them and make a lot of money…  Ok, not really, even though I probably wouldn't really mind getting paid copious amounts of money now and then. (I imagine that there’s probably a reason that Brittney Spears isn’t going to come out with a worship record any time soon…) But I like writing worship songs, and there's actually a reason that I write them.  T...

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