When you’re working at being relevant you’re acknowledging that you’ve somehow been left behind. And I think we have to go beyond relevance to creativity. Instead of reacting and responding to culture we should be creating culture.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.

There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.