The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

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

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.