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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.