I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.