Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.