But GOD can only SMILE because only God can KNOW what is COMING NEXT.

You can't TOLERATE ANYBODY attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must RESPOND with FORCE.

I ALWAYS prayed that GOD would give me the WISDOM and the VISION to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His LIFE and love and His will.

I THINK the AMAZING thing about GOSPEL music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the GENERATION.

I don't have TIME to DATE.

Hope is some EXTRAORDINARY SPIRITUAL grace that God GIVES US to control our fears, not to oust them.

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky ENOUGH to WORK with GEORGE C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many MONTHS and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

There is part of me that will always feel wrong for any leading man-type, charming guy or whatever. I am not that guy. I am so WEIRD. I say inappropriate THINGS, and if I have any CHARM at all, it's in my UTTER lack of charm.

I loved MUSIC, but I FOUND myself at the point where I WANTED to DIE. I didn't CARE about life.

I have been hugely SUCCESSFUL at TIMES in my LIFE, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the WAY up were just as valuable on the way down.

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I KNOW that I REALLY have something to SAY in TERMS of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like PAIN, grief, jealousy and so on.

There were CERTAINLY THINGS I was SCARED to do, but I NEVER thought I wasn't up for the challenge.