Danny Gokey
I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.Collection: Anger
My wife was an amazing, amazing person. Sophia's Heart is an organization that I founded in honor of my wife when she passed away. When she passed away it was a complete shock, and it was disappointment, anger. I felt all those emotions.Collection: Anger
Trusting in God is important. He knows what is best.
I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.
I don't live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.
When you write about hope, don't make it sappy; make it cool, make it adaptable.
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.
Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.
I drove an 18-wheeler semi-truck, a big rig. I liked it actually.
In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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.
On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.
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.
I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.
It's a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That's not the case. We live in a world that's broken, where there's disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.
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 believe in helping people who are down.
I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see.
I would like to do a duet with Kelly Clarkson. I just think she's wonderful!
There's not a person in the United States of America who doesn't love country or have some kind of tie to it.
I've kind of walked into a realm where it's paid off for all the hard work that I've put into it, and I get to bless my family. And that's the one thing I love doing. I love giving.
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.
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.
I had underwear thrown on stage that said 'Gokey' on the back... all glittery! It was grandma-underwear, too.
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 like that in country, you can talk about what you want to talk about. You can entertain, yet you can have a spiritual side to you, also an emotional side.
The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.
I want to have a movement with my music.
Being on 'American Idol,' the blessings of glasses have rained from the sky. I really would like to start a Danny line or a Gokey line of eyeglasses.
As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.
I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.
I've always loved glasses. Always have. I've worn glasses since I was in the fifth grade.
Since I was a kid, I always felt like God had placed something inside my heart. And I always believed that God was going to do something great in my life. But I didn't know the road that I was going to take to get here. And especially losing my wife.
One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.
One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.
The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.Collection: God
Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.Collection: Travel
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.Collection: Father
Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.Collection: Thinking
Singing is really where I got my start in church.Collection: Singing
I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.Collection: Thinking
I want people to feel the hope that comes through Christmastime.Collection: People
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.Collection: Cities