Deborah Joy Winans

My Auntie CeCe - I can kind of joke and say all I need to do is pray. But that's literally what she does... She lives what she sings. I've learned a lot about her in that way, so in bringing her to the stage, I knew what sort of demeanor she needed to have. Her songs are very reflective of who she is in real life. ”

Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life. ”

I always loved acting, and that's what I wanted to do. It's funny that my first big role is a role where I'm going into a studio to record my singing. ”

I think that a sense of loyalty is something that a lot of people lack, just period, in life. ”

I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know that's my family's thing; that not what I do.' ”

We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted. ”

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country. ”

In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it. ”

Everyone is human, and everyone makes mistakes. ”

I often joke with my husband and say to him, 'You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That's all I know how to do.' LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn't expect too much from me. ”