I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

You're only as weak as you let yourself become, and you're only as strong as you allow yourself to be.

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

An Atheist, is nothing but a bankrupt Anarchist.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.

Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.