You're a husband, an artist, a pastor. Where and how do you balance it all?
It all works together. All things work together for the good of them that love the Lord ... I just schedule it out. It's all about planning and having a good assistant and a good team with you. I've been blessed to have a wife that's in the same field that I'm in and she's a very successful gospel singer, Damita Haddon. So it's really easy for me. As opposed to having a spouse that's in a totally different field that don't understand the hours that I have like getting up early in the morning and coming home late. She understands because she has to do it also. So it's really easy for me; I've never had a problem to date.
Now where do you get the inspiration for the music you produce?
The music that I write is a gift from God. It comes from out of nowhere. Like, I can't force it ... I don't make contrived music or music to fit a format. I sing what's on my heart. I sing the melodies that God placed on my heart. Like "A Sinner's Prayer" [he sings the lyrics, "I'm so glad that God still hears a sinners prayer"], I heard that in my sleep and I woke up singing it. "God didn't give up on me," I heard that on an elevator in Los Angeles and walked out of the elevator singing it. So you have no control over it. It can happen at any given moment. It can be something we said in this interview or we talked about or something that I've seen or experienced or heard in the conversation and just come up with something.
What is the message that you're wanting your listeners to take away from the new "Revealed" CD?
