I'm living a life. I have nine children.

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.