Cliff Richard Quotes

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.

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

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.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

I listen to Christian music.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.

I've done gospel songs on every album.

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

Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of that.

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.

I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

Personally I prefer Gospel 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.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

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

I listen to gospel music.