I was raised by a village.

The thing is, the older I got, the bigger the village got, and the more influences there were.

It's a bit like the Amish, with their kids - I had my "wild years", or perhaps "my years wandering in the wilderness", it depends how you look at it.

I didn't decide to be who I am overnight. Over time it became, more and more a comfortable way of thinking.

I'm not a mainstream Christian, I'm not a Muslim, I'm not a Buddhist, I'm not a Quaker, nor a Mennonite, or Hindu but I have known people who are, and I have found things in the way they think that appeal, that have a truth, for me.

Over a period of many years I grew to see that if I wanted to live, not just exist, but live, be content, be comfortable then I had to learn how to live, in a way that worked for me.

Ultimately, I had to be happy and if being happy meant simply being kind to people, then there lay the answer.