In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
I have inner peace. It’s a different person.
Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
It’s more important to be righteous than to be right.
It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
I don’t want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don’t want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.