I wanted to leave Eight Is Enough for the Navy.

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.