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.

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.

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

I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.

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.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.