Everything I Have And Everything I Do

The Battle Against The Dark One And The Clinging To The Right One Is What My Life Is About.

It Just Took The Right Time. I Was Fully Confident That I Was Going To See Sam Phillips And To Record For Him That When I Called Him, I Thought, I'm Going To Get On Sun Records. So I Called Him And He Turned Me Down Flat. Then Two Weeks Later, I Got Turned Down Again. He Told Me Over The Phone That He Couldn't Sell Gospel Music So - As It Was Independent, Not A Lot Of Money.

Gospel Music Is So Ingrained Into My Bones. I Can't Do A Concert Without Singing A Gospel Song. It's What I Was Raised On.

This Business I'm In Is Different. It's Special. The People Around Me Feel Like Brothers And Sisters. We Hardly Know Each Other, But We're That Close; Somehow There's Been An Immediate Bonding Between Total Strangers. We Share Each Other's Triumphs, And When One Of Us Gets Hurt, We All Bleed - It's Corny, I Know, But It's True. I've Never Experienced Anything Like This Before. It's Great. It Turns Up The Heat In Life.

I Think In My World Of Religion, You're Called To Preach Or You Don't Preach. Called By God To Preach. I Never Been Ordained By God To Preach The Gospel. I Have A Calling, It's Called To Perform And Sing.