I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Paradise is a state of mind.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.