I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Rethink Your Success Mindset: Times are getting tougher. We need tougher mindsets to ensure that we go beyond survive to thrive.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.