We talked to people at all levels about music. The next thing you know, we had tapped a nerve with musicians all around the country, and it was obvious we were onto something.

I have never felt more positive about the future of music than I do now. The future looks bright for all the bands coming to South by Southwest because they're powered by the Internet and they're powered by affordable technology. Imagine the music we're going to hear 10 years from now.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.

I wish there was some paradigm shift in the economics of independent music and we could afford to keep this going for longer. It's just kind of expensive. As long as we're still having a really good time and as long as we're good friends, this seems like the perfect time to not necessarily quit but change the formula a little bit.

The idea of using a portable device to stream music is a sound idea and will have a large market when the performance and price get to the right point. People will pay for premium services that allow you to listen to precisely what you want to listen to, without any ads.

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines brightest with her child in her arms, the father when he forgives his wandering son, and the artist when he or she is drawing attention to grace, by showing the pinprick of light overcoming the darkness in the painting, or the story, or the song. The world knows darkness. Christ came into the world to show us light. I have seen it, have been blinded by it, invaded by it. I will tell its story.