Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

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.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.

I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral.

That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?