I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods and to the sand dunes and the lake every day. That spoke to me more than getting up at six and the morning and saying some prayers. That had nothing to do with religion to me.

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.

Shaming and blaming your kid isn't going to make them change. You can't change yourself. Would I love to be tall and blonde? Yes, but that's not going to happen. I'm always going to be short and dark-haired, maybe gray-haired now.