I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.