Amy Grant

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.”

“I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.”

“I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.”

“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”

“I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.”

“Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.”

“Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.”

“I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.”

“Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.”

“When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.”

“How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.”

“The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.”

“I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.”

“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.”

“Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.”

“The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.”

“But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.”

“I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.”

“To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.”

“I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.”