If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

Getting fired from work is not a tragedy

All the strangest things are true.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.