If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.