The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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.
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.
[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on its own. Two hours where we spoke as brothers, sincerely and no one knows what was spoke about, only what we said at the end publicly about how we felt as we spoke.
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.
I literally hate working out.