The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.
I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?
I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.
The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.
One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people's hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God.
To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.
To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.
If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.
"I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes."
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