This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert. . . everyone has this sense of rejoicing. I don't want them to be blown away by what I do, I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in.
What I got in Sunday school. . . was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous. . . . The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.