I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.