After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30 something.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.