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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.