“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.”
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I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.
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.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.