Sometimes Religion Gets In The Way Of

Particularly Conservative Christians, I Was Very Angry That They Were Not Involved More In The Aids Emergency.

The Great Moments Of Rock 'n' Roll Were Never Off In Some Corner Of The Music World, In A Self-constructed Ghetto.

You Don't Become An 'artist' Unless You've Got Something Missing Somewhere. Blaise Pascal Called It A God-shaped Hole. Everyone's Got One But Some Are Blacker And Wider Than Others. It's A Feeling Of Being Abandoned,cut Adrift In Space And Time-sometimes Following The Loss Of A Loved One. You Can Never Completely Fill That Hole-you Can Try With Songs,family,faith And By Living A Full Life...but When Things Are Silent, You Can Still Hear The Hissing Of What's Missing.

I Remember How My Mother Would Bring Us To Chapel On Sundays... And My Father Used To Wait Outside. One Of The Things That I Picked Up From My Father And My Mother Was The Sense That Religion Often Gets In The Way Of God. For Me, At Least, It Got In The Way.

It's So Sweet, I Feel Like My Teeth Are Rotting When I Listen To The Radio.