Jonny Lang Quotes

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.