Quotes from Amy Grant

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

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.

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

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.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

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.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

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've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground.

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.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.