Usually, when you talk about serialized TV, you're talking about one specific beat that you play, over and over again.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

Stuff is not enough.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Golf is tougher than my first wife.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.