Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

Real religion is no religion at all.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.