The American way was for commerce personal relationships and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.

My political ideas and things like that even my religion I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world I'm just an entertainer.

Beside all this I think there was something personal being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

I've found a more personal pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Personally I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know my higher self. The Creator.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

I have a much wider freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own personally. You know let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul or their God or with their church.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture you get into a relationship.

Then of course there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.