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

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.

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

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.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

Time is a gentleman! It never erases beautiful things.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Gentleman is the best friend of patience.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.