There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

I am sorry

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

In every crisis there is a message.