I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

I want to fight for what we got because I believe in family.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Anger is fire. It burns inside. It destroys.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money!