Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

I knew religion from an early age.

I grew up Seventh Day Adventist.

I grew up very religious.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I grew up with a very religious background.

I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

I grew up as a Mormon.

The interesting thing is I grew up a Jehovah's Witness and I had a very, very strict upbringing.

People always think I'm Jewish. Actually, I'm a lapsed Catholic.

I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.

I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.