Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.