My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral it's a good pick.

As a pastor you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit you get invited into the center of the event whether or not you know the people.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994 and how kind she was during that difficult time.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

When a nation's young men are conservative its funeral bell is already rung.