Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member of his choir and direct people that weren't there.

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.

I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.