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

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.

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.

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.

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

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.