I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist one-quarter Catholic one-quarter Jewish.

And religion causes most of the problems war and economics of course and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling you don't get it you're missing the whole point.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about things that interest me: politics religion ecology and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations from the state down to the village garden club end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music listening to music making records and singing.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture to music to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray and if I have a question I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.