In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

Minors should not be exposed to what is going on in the so-called news.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

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

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.