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I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said "Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

The image is one thing, and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.