I'm still the same. That's why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see

The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.

Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence.

Never become so involved with something that it blinds you. Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.

Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one'll let you die.

The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

There are no monsters, Doctor, ' she spluttered.Yeah, There are, ' he said. 'Some of them are just better at hiding than others. And then there are the ones we wouldn't know if we saw them.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.