I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

Acceptance says "True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.