Brad Pitt was warned rock concerts were the "Devil".
Brad Pitt in GQ Style
The 'Moneyball' actor had a strict Christian upbringing and though he wasn't banned from going to gigs, he was warned off, but found once he did attend, people were displaying the same feelings that he saw in church revival meetings.
He recalled to the new issue of GQ Style magazine: "I remember going to a few concerts, even though we were told rock shows are the Devil, basically.
"Our parents let us go, they weren't neo about it.
"But I realised that the reverie and the joy and exuberance, even the aggression, I was feeling at the rock show was the same thing at the revival.
"One is Jimmy Swaggart and one is Jerry Lee Lewis, you know? One's God and one's Devil. But it's the same thing.
"It felt like we were being manipulated. What was clear to me was 'You don't know what you're talking about...'
"It didn't f**k me up--it just led to some eating questions at a young age."
The 53-year-old actor initially grew up in a more traditional Christian household, but his parents moved towards a more unorthodox way of worship when he was a teenager.
He recalled: "We grew up First Baptist, which is the cleaner, stricter, by-the-book Christianity.
"Then, when I was in high school, my folks jumped to a more charismatic movement, which got into speaking in tongues and raising your hands and some goofy-ass s**t.
"Come on. I'm not even an actor yet, but I know... I mean the people, I know they believe it. I know they're releasing something. God, we're complicated. We're complicated creatures."
And Brad thinks his upbringing is one of the things that drew him to acting because he wanted to explore different cultures.
He said: "As a kid, I was certainly drawn to stories--beyond the stories that we were living and knew, stories with different points of view. And I found those stories in film, especially. Different cultures and lives so foreign to mine. I think that was one of the draws that propelled me into film. I didn't know how to articulate stories. I'm certainly not a good orator, sitting here telling a story, but I could foster them in film."