When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gospel album. There's a big universe out here, and I don't want to just sing to the church. I want to sing to the world and bring them a message of love. I love going to church and singing gospel songs, but right now there's a message that the world needs.
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.