Steven Curtis Chapman I am in a business that’s built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I think we all want to know that if our lives don’t turn out the way we imagine, there’s still a purpose. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I’ve always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad’s choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I believe God weeps over – over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman This is life we’ve been given, made to be lived out, so… live out loud. – Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there’s one who’s great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can’t believe. – Steven Curtis Chapman