Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.