The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.
When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.
