You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.