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"Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."

"In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."

"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."

"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."

"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
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"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."

"Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride."

"Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior."

"I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently."

"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."

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

"I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast."

"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."

"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."

"I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me."
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