John Rich

Seeing the things that go on in our country, seeing things that go on in our culture, seeing things that happen to people who cannot defend themselves, whether it be kids, whether it be poor people, whoever, that just get steamrolled every single day, taken advantage of, targeted, used, abused.

And I thought...

I'm wasting my heartbeats right now because I am capable of taking a simple idea, a simple line, and turning it into a piece of music

that can penetrate tens of millions of people.

And I can make them cry.

I can make them jump up and down and scream and holler and party.

I can make them think.

I can make them not think.

I can do all kinds of... I mean, music is the ultimate X factor.

Like, you can't touch it.

It...

music seeps in between the cracks and crevices of a person's body, mind, and soul.

Like everybody's got defenses up, everybody.

We do, I do.

Music goes right through it.

It just gets through it.

How?

I don't know.

Music is, it's like magic.

I mean, Psalms, the entire book of Psalms means songs, basically, that David wrote.