Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the United States and have something to say about the United States and my perspective and my lens is going to affect my judgment on everything" and that's the way a Christian should be. I'm going to invade culture and my lens and perspective is going to influence culture just as much as anyone else's.

The older you get, the more comfortable you get in your own skin. You find yourself.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I guess my prayer is that there will be other leaders behind me who will come in and do more than what I've done, and more than what I can do and that this serves as an opportunity to level the playing field in hip-hop. I just want to be able to say "Hey, there's way more going on in life than the club."

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.