Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

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

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.