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" Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. "
Enough
Work
Think
" As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. "
Fun
Change
Change The World
" Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics. "
Mistake
Church
Bible
" Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner. "
Want
Facts
Free
" God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion. "
Kind
Turn
Religion
" If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair. "
Impossible
Despair
Island
" If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting. "
Desire
Life
Deep
" Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. "
Good Teacher
Good
Teacher
" Music can change the world because it can change people. "
Change The World
Change
People
" My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. "
Mistakes
Wrong
Made
" My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. "
God
Simple
Understanding
" Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today. "
Overcoming
Me
Never
" Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know. "
Manners
Know
You
" Rock music is niche. "
Niche
Rock Music
Rock
" Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit. "
Homework
Boring
Admit
" The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. "
Coal
Cost
Environment
" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "
Ugliness
Art
Chase
" The less you know, the more you believe. "
More
Believe
Know
" To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. "
Respect
Right
Great
" What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. "
Praise
Well
Blues
" What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. "
Song
Need
Me
" When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that. "
Teacher
Challenge
Good
" When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life. "
God
Yourself
Your
" When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see. "
Life
God
Eyes
" Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world. "
Determine
You
World
" You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong. "
Action
See
Strong
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