Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.
There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.
I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.
I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.
I was in the beginning of junior high. When I was first offered the record deal, a lot of people were concerned, saying to me, "Stacie, you are so young, and you have a great talent but you don't have to do this right now. " If you can do it now, you're only going to get better, you're only going to learn more, and you can do it at any point in your life.
I don't want to date someone who the whole world knows. Obviously, there are guys you look at and are like, 'Aww yeah, nice,' but I definitely have an anti-celebrity dating thing.
Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.
I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.
God's timing is rarely our timing.