I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

Great music is great music, period.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.