The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.