"The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal."

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"The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal."

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"One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers."

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"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again."

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"We influence singing but never really songwriting."

Influence

"You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide."

Society

"I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff."

Care

"I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that."

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"I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing."

Thought

"I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church."

Change

"I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here."

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"You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together."

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