As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people;.

It’s so hard to retain what your purpose is – or to even realize what it is.

My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I’m quite limited as a player, so it’s my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

Every pore of you is crying and you don’t even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.

I’ve been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I’ve probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously.

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?

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.

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.