Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

I'm so honored to have been a part of something so meaningful that helped to keep so many families and loved ones connected.

I enjoyed all of the tours and learned something from everyone.

Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.

I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.

I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation.

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.