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The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.