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

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.

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

I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?

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.