My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed bec...
Marriage changes everything.
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicis...
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
Music is the strongest form of magic.
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to...
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's...
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was s...
I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copy...
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.