I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

Jesus does not demand of us higher standards, he offers us himself. Jesus does not require of us super-human ability or commitments. He gives us his ability and grace.

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.