Pastoral Resources

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.