Matty Mullins Quotes

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

We never claimed to be a Christian band; we just were outspoken about our faith. It's not like we knew there was a scene.

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.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.

I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

I'm lucky my parents raised me well.

My father used to give me a lot of advice.