“You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.”

You have too take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound.

I’m trying to bring the romance back to music. Old school… Music is meant to be a part of your blood stream, and if it doesn’t affect your bloodstream, then you may as well put it back in the shoebox underneath the bed.

My instinct is to put my sadness aside, and give them a smile or a hug, no matter how bad I’m feeling.

And the appreciation of fans can refuel your spiritual tank in those situations. But until you’re famous, people don’t realize how difficult that is.

I don’t discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me.

That’s the worst. Imagine going through a scandal, or a divorce, or a death in the family, and running into fans on the street. Because of where my heart is.

I’m a human being just like you are. And I hurt and love just like everybody else, and people tend to forget that.

I want to be remembered as a man who was positive, who made a difference, and who walked in God’s light.

When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

The hardest part about being a celebrity is having to heal on a public stage.

I don’t respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don’t need to talk about.

Prayer and encouraging words change things. We’re all human. We all go through stuff.

I don’t have a negative bone in my body. That’s why I could care less about any gossip. It doesn’t interest me. I’d rather sit down and write a song.

I think I’m one of the friendliest celebrities around, because I’ll stop to talk to anybody who recognizes me.

The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness.

This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

It was like she’d become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.

Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t. Be a man.