"Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs."

-- Andrew Ripp

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“Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.”
“Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.”
“A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.”
“It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.”
“I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness.”
“Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.”
“From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.”
“You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 28, 2012

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