I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

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.

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

I could eat my body weight in sushi.

I really dig the writers, and I think they challenged me for the most part throughout the journey on the show. If you don't challenge me in a series sort of situation, boy, I couldn't be on it long.