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

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.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.

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.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.