That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.

Consequence is no coincidence.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.