Quotes about Inspiration

I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?'

When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a challenge to every issue of 'X-Men.'

Every time I turn on the Olympics there is somebody that I know and have had intense conversations with, and that's cool.

Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Robert Whittaker has really opened eyes, look what he's doing.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.