Posts Tagged ‘interview’

Eric Peters

By Matt Conner • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: Features

Indie artist talks about middle age life and his novel approach to financing his latest effort.


Robbie Seay

By Matt Conner • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: Features

Part Two: Seay shares his thoughts on why Christians should be making the best art.


Robbie Seay

By Matt Conner • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Features

Part One: Seay opens up about the Hope Coffee Melody Tour and future plans for recording.


Kemper Crabb

By Matt Conner • Nov 10th, 2008 • Category: Features

The eclectic musician opens up about his career curve and his latest Christmas project.


Charlie Hall

By Matt Conner • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Features

Part Two: Hall talks about his place within Passion and the oddity of autographing a hymnal.


Charlie Hall

By Matt Conner • Nov 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Part One: Hall shares about the creative and spiritual elements that shape his music.


Ruth

By Matt Conner • Oct 27th, 2008 • Category: Features

Dustin Ruth shares about producer flip-flops and watching Star Trek documentaries with Emery.


Kutless

By Andrew Greenhalgh • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Rockers discuss the process of recording their new album and their choice to be blatant about their faith.


Warren Barfield

By Matt Conner • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Features

The singer/songwriter tells us what he’s willing to fight for.


Human Flight Committee

By Matt Conner • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Features

Works with Anberlin, alongside Blue Ducks and on a new record.


Eric Peters –
...having made a handful of records, I full well realize that I, as a part of the music industry at large, certainly don’t amount to a whole heck of a lot. But as a member of Christ’s Body, I can only hope that my capillary of art (if I may so call it) will be of some minor significance in the life of someone in their own lurching championship of faith.

Robbie Seay –
I feel like, as an artist, whether we're believers or not, we're to observe and create and write about all of life around us - about all the turmoil and the struggle and the beauty, we write and create out of that. I think that's especially so as believers. We swing the spectrum of pain to joy and we should be writing about all of that.

Robbie Seay –
We've got a family, a church community and we do want to be intentional about putting ourselves into a community and actually letting folks know and love us no matter if we're playing music or not.

Kemper Crabb –
Now, Christmastime is a time when our whole society - Christian or not - gets excited about this time of renewal. It’s the one time of the year when people aren’t afraid of Jesus.

Charlie Hall –
Because I know I've got Jesus, I was trying to heal their souls, their hearts. I'm trying to write in a way that would deliver people, show people they are loved in their nastiest place and show my friends around me who aren't Christians that have embraced me as a Christian and I've embraced them as non-Christians - I wanted to write a record that had language they could grapple with.

Charlie Hall –
Walk right toward the cross and live big and He walks with us through every step. It was different. I was absolutely a Christian before, but this was a different place for me in terms of knowing and needing Jesus.

Ruth –
We can sometimes as a band feel like Anoraks amongst our peer bands that we love and we respect. I don't know if they would care to listen to the lyrics of our songs or care what they're about. And sometimes you run into churches not wanting you to be that honest. They want you to sing about Jesus but not about how we fail or how we're broken.

Kutless –
But our heart as a band is definitely to be blatant. And we’re a Christian rock band, you know, we’re going to sing about Jesus. Our number one goal as a band is to just reflect Christ’s love as it has been in our lives. And as cliché as that even sounds it really is just the driving force behind everything.

Warren Barfield –
Do we spend as much time investing in our spouses as we do in our retirement plans? Do we spend as much time investing in our relationship with Christ as we do in trying to get a bigger house or a cooler car? Are we investing in the right things? Are we living for things worth fighting for?

Human Flight Committee –
Sometimes bands can get lost in a label and they become, “Oh here’s just another one of our bands.” But we thought they would really, really push us because they were excited about us. That’s amazing to us to be such a focal point for a label.