To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.