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

They're my positive chaos, my children.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

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

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.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.