It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.
Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a high honor. I'm proud of the song at that point because I'm trying to write something for humans - whichever humans want to get on board and put this in their soundtrack to their soul's development or spiritual lives.
As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.
You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.
My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.
It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.
When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor.
To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.