Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

Love and heartbreak is something that's always been a part of me.

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

Troubles are not always terrible, but they are a gentle reminder to grow.

Life is a cluster of Sometimes Moments, more beautiful when more a grouped together.

If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

I really think you stare at yourself and you see things.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.