Danny Gokey

“Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.”

“Christmastime is about hope with what God did for us and with the expression of His love through the gift He gave us at Christmastime, which was Jesus... the one who heals us, who saves us, who delivers us, who is there in our darkest moments.”

“I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.”

“I want to have a movement with my music.”

“I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.”

“I drove an 18-wheeler semi-truck, a big rig. I liked it actually.”

“Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.”

“I don't live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.”

“I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.”

“I had underwear thrown on stage that said 'Gokey' on the back... all glittery! It was grandma-underwear, too.”

“The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.”

“When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.”

“Many people don't have an internal vision to go after something, fight for something, make a plan. So the biggest thing is - until you get picked up by a major label or until something breaks, you need to plan out what your dream is going to be.”

“As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.”

“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 really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving job, so I could maintain my singing job at night. I put about 30 hours a week just for singing, going between two churches. And in order to afford that, I had to take a full time job so I could do my passion.”