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

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.

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

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.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us.

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’

I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace – when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall – and a Union Jack dress.

The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.