As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.