Amy Grant Quotes - Page 3

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

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.

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

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'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

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

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

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.

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 fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

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.

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

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

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

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.

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 just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

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 feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

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.