It always causes my heart to feel greater things and my mind to think of higher things, of God, and His Majesty and His creativity and everything about Him.
So I just equated the "song that the universe was singing" of his glory, it's kind of like how it's exploding with His glory and His fingerprints all around like cannons in the night. So one of the first things that came to me was that there is this massive song going on around us that is leading us, if we just take time to look and to listen and it will lead us to a deeper place with God. So it was a mixture of cannons and explosions join in with it, that is kind of like the meaning.
CT: Do you have a particular method to how you compose a song? Is there a particular place you feel most comfortable composing?
PW: No, there is no particular place or method or formula for me. Usually, I'm very much a "melody first" kind of guy. I'll write the melody first so I am always 5 or 10 steps ahead with 5 or 10 completed melody songs but with no lyrics, or even thought about what I'm going to write the lyrics about.
I usually stash those away and that will be a song with all the chords, all the chorus and the bridge and the verses and I will kind of sing out nonsense, kind of phrases and syllables and I'll record it like that.
So when I'm more inspired lyrically, then that's the part that I really need to mull over and think it over. It's definitely the most trying part, to finish the song lyrically. I can do a bunch of melodies and chords and the arrangements in the songs and stuff. But the lyrics is where I really take a long time in doing, so I kind of just stash those nonsense songs away until I am lyrically inspired then I'll pull them out and attach the lyrics to the melodies.
CT: How do you attempt to remain sincere as a Christian artist and honest in your music? Do you find that it's easy to get swayed by the music industry?
PW: In some ways, I guess it must be hard to stay level, if you start to believe what people are saying every night after the show "You're great, you're handsome, you're this and you're that."
The biggest thing is to not believe it; you need to brush it aside. And many people, including me, when you hear it enough, it's hard to just brush it away. You start thinking yourself a little better than others, you start thinking that you actually have something great to offer.
I just finished reading through the book of Matthew, and there is just no way that I can't stay level when I'm reading through Matthew and reading what Jesus did for me on the cross, you know what I mean?
There is no way for me to not have a level, even in my haughtiest of moments to read through that and remember what God did for me on the cross. That'll immediately bring me to a place of reverence and thankfulness and humility.
