It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

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

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.